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the bones of animals. But strange to say, though the blades judged by 
their shape, are presumed by the finder to be (like their French dupli- 
cates) of Quarternary age, the bones represent animals still living in 
the country. 
At two other surface sites El-Ouasahai and Santon, he finds a remark- 
able mixture of stone implements some chipped and others polished, 
together with innumerable potsherds, bits of marble, glass and mosaic 
and flint blades of various sizes and shapes, where from an archwological 
point of view it would appear that he had dug into several culture 
periods at once, though judged by the stratification it has as yet 
seemed impossible to make any distinction between epochs. A final 
detailed report of the work will be awaited with interest—H. C. 
MERCER. 
PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
Boston Society of Natural History.—February 8, 1897.— 
The following paper was read: Mr. William C. Bates, “ Venezuela 
and Guiana, their Natural History, Scenery and People.” —SAMUEL 
Hensuaw, Secretary. 
New York Academy of Sciences, Biological Section.— 
January 11, 1897.—Dr. G. 8. Huntington read a paper entitled “A 
Contribution to the Myology of Lemur bruneus.” 
The paper deals with some of the ventral trunk muscles and the 
4ppendicular muscles of the forelimb and pectoral girdle. A compari. 
Son of the structure of these muscles with the corresponding parts in 
other members of the suborder shows L. bruneus to possess marked 
primate characters in the arrangement of the pectoral girdle muscles 
and the muscles of the proximal segment of the anterior limb. This is 
especially evident in the lateral recession of the pectorales; the com- 
pound character of the ectopectoral insertion, the junctions of a pector- 
alis abdominalis with the typical entopectoral insertion, and the chee gad 
of an axillary muscular arch, derived from the tendons of the Latissimus 
dorsi and connected with the deep plane of insertion of the ectopectoral 
tendon. À 
, The presence of a third or inferior portion of the coraco-brachialis 
18 noted in addition to the upper and middle portion usually present in 
the Lemuroidia, 
