206 General Notes. [ February, 
CuaracTERS or Human Femora.—Dr. E. Houzé, in the bulle- 
tin of the Anthropological Society of Brussels, gives the result of 
an examination into the third trochanter as it occasionally appears 
in a rudimental condition in man. He finds it to be more com- 
mon in the higher than the lower races, as it is the point of inser- 
tion of the gluteus maximus muscle, which is in man intimate 
connected with the maintenance of the erect position. Thus its 
very rare inthe Anthropoid apes which are “ platypyges;" Cee 
in the negroes which he terms “ micropyges,” while it 1s vey 
common in Europeans, who are “megapyges, Or have th 
gluteus muscles best developed. It is rather more common re 
women than in men. The hypotrochanteric fossa is situated 
below the third trochanter. It is rare in men of the presentp® 
riod, but is constantly present in the femora of the men of 
reindeer epoch in Belgium. It is found in men from Grevelle ant 
Cro-Magnon in France. 
ZooLocicaL Notes.—General.—Professor E. H, Gigliolh a 
written note appended to an inaugural discourse delivered bywa- 
at the opening of the new hall, for the Central Collection of I 3 
Vertebrates in the Museum at Florence, states that there arf e 
in that collection more than 22,000 specimens, including “a 
ples of all the mammals (108 species), reptiles (41 species), ted 
batrachia (21 species) found in Italy. The birds are represen 
_ by 22,000 examples and 415 species, and the fishes by mon uitt 
14,000 specimens and 554 species, yet these classes a 
ries by 
complete. The same naturalist writes of the recent discov the 
the Italian vessel Washington and the French Travai fe 
“discovery of an abyssal fauna in the Mediterranean, ge the 
Carpenter had confidently asserted the scarci pore 
depths of that sea. Among the results obtained by the ! ie 
ton were Willemcesia, Dorocidaris, Brisinga, Ar gyropelecy®,, with 
, incular fish W 
large emerald eyes, Gadiculus, Macrurus scele orhynchus, ae } 
other interesting forms. Species which are known to to 5? : 
depths eight times greater were found at depths of a : 
meters. : 
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Fishes—The report of Messrs. Goode and Bean Patil 
Pleuronectidæ, including two new species; six MA pee 
three new species, eight Gadidz, with one new spec! a 
