1885.] Zoölogy. 197 
Between Poëbrotherium and the living camels stands, according 
to Professor Cope,’ the genus Procamelus. In regard to this lat- 
ter, Cope says, p. 262: “ Thus the lateral rudimental metacarpals 
of Poëbrotherium have disappeared, and with them the trapezoides 
of the carpus.” (This is evidently a typographical error; instead 
of trapezoides it should read trapezium.) 
Now if there is a trapezium in one of the living Camelidæ, as 
I have found, there ought to be one in the older form—Procame- 
lus. That this is in fact so, seems apparent from the figure given 
by Cope? of Procamelus occidentalis (P\. LXXIX, fig. 3a). There 
appears to be an articular surface, at the back part of the trape- 
zoid and it would be interesting to prove it definitively. 
The presence of a trapezium in the Camelidz shows that they, 
like the Cervidz, are ancestral forms of the ruminants. I will 
discuss this in another place. 
I do not doubt that we will find in the carpus of camel embryos 
the same condition as in Poébrotherium. It would be interesting 
to examine embryos with this view.—Dr. G. Baur, Vale College 
Museum, New Haven, Conn., Nov., 1884. 
LAST APPEARANCE OF THE BISON IN WEsT VIRGINIA.—The fol- 
lowing letter we owe to the kindness of Professor J. Packard of 
the Theological Seminary of Virginia. The ‘facts regarding the, 
last date of the appearance of the buffalo in West Virginia will 
be interesting in connection with the statements in J. A. Allen’s 
work on the American bison, living and extinct. 
PRINCETON, MERCER COUNTY, W. VA., April 26, 1877. * 
Your letter was received several days ago, and would have 
been answered before this, but was delayed by me with the hope 
of arriving at such information as some of the oldest of our 
citizens might be in possession of, which I expected to obtain at 
our last week’s court. I have failed to get but little beyond the 
slight traditions I had before; to sum it all up, I think the last 
buffalo killed on Guyan river was killed by a man named Mor- 
gan, on a creek’and at a lick called Buffalo, about four miles from 
its mouth that empties into said Guyan, and about fourteen miles 
from Logan C. H., and in the County of Logan, in the year 1804. 
Another one was killed, and perhaps the last one heard of, by Jo- 
seph Workman on the Deer Skin fork of Coal river, about the year 
1810. This information I got from old Stephen Blankenship, 
who is now in his eighty-sixth year. I learn that old Mr. Work- 
man is still living, and is ninety-five years old; the buffalo was 
killed in the present County of Boon, where he now lives. My 
impression was, before the receipt of your letter, that the last one 
i Cope, E. D. The Phylogeny of the Camelidz, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1875, p. 
2 
i Report Expl. Surv. W. of tooth Mer. U. S. G. M. Wheeler in charge, rv, pt. 2, 
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