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dimensions of the skeleton are as follows: Length, not including tail, 
9 feet; height, 4 feet; greatest girth, 9 feet 4 inches. (Kansas Univ. 
Quart., April, 1894). 
In discussing the mammoth remains in Canada and Alaska, Dr. G. 
M. Dawson notes that in the northwestern part of the continent they 
are abundant in, if not confined to the limits of a great unglaciated area 
there existing. This area comprises nearly the whole of Alaska and 
part of the adjacent Yukon district of Canada. No mastodon bones 
have been reported from this region. (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., Feb., 
1894), 
A collection of Tertiary Mammals is reported upon by Professor 
John Eyerman. The most of the specimens were obtained by Dr. 
Forsyth-Major, in situ, in southern France and Italy. The collection 
comprises 7 Insectivora; 3 Carnivora; 14 Rodentia; and 5 Ungulata. 
Of the Insectivora, one represents, according to Dr. Major, a new fam- 
ily and genus. Also there is one new genus of Murid rodents, 
closely related to the American Paciculus of Cope. (Am. Geol., Vol. 
XIT, 1893). 
Signor G. A. Amicis has just published (Bull. Soc. Geol. Ital., 1898) 
“J foraminiferi del pliocene inferiore di Trinité- Victor (Nizzardo),’ an 
important contribution to our knowledge of the Pliocene Foraminifera 
of Italy. One hundred and twenty-six forms are recorded, to each of 
which a very full and interesting synonymy is given, while only two 
forms are recorded as new, an evidence of the extreme care bestowed 
upon his work by the author, who hasswept away many varietal forms 
recently described as new by other authors from imperfect acquaint- 
Ance with the literature. (Nat. Sci., Feb., 1894.) 
_ In summing up the data concerning the drainage features of a ; 
upper Ohio Basin, Messrs. Chamberlain and Leverett agree As . e 
evidence is very strong that the two uppermost sections of sa vend 
gheny basin, (including also Oil Creek Basin) and the op . r 
gheny discharged northwesterly; the evidence relative to the at 
Allegheny and the upper setion of the Ohio River favors no sr 
discharge, but is too incomplete to justify a firm SPENS eee a 
hold to the belief that no hypothesis of continuity can exp T. O 
phenomena of the glacial drift and terraces of the region oon are 
ia. They offer four hypotheses in explanation of “tf si m 
observed, all of which agree on the most vital points, an : FA a 
size the importance and significance of the first glacial "o : 
Journ, Sci., Vol. XLVII, 1894). 
