of Cosoryx (“ Dicrocerus’’) as much as those of the deer difer 
from the molars of the antelope. While Cosoryx (“ Dicrocerus’) 
was probably the ancestor of Antilocapra, Blastomeryx was the 
ancestor of Cervus or Cariacus.” This opinion expresses all the 
information I possess on the subject at present. It remains te 
ascertain the structure of the anterior feet in Hypisodus, whichis 
the earliest genus of Ruminantia known to have prismatic molars, 
The following table will represent the views expressed in the 
preceding pages: 
1036 General Notes. 
? Bovide, Tragulide., Camelidz. 
Hyopotamidz. Oreodontidz. Poébrotheriide. 
Quadritubercular Bunodonts 
Selenodonta. 
~ 
Tritubercular Bunodonta. 
Pantolestide). 
—E. D. Cope. 
ERUPTION oF Krakatoa.—It will be remembered, says =< 
Gossip, that the Dutch government appointed a commission 2 
vestigate the nature and results of the eruption of Dr. Ver 
August last. The report has just been presented a ant 
adventure. At the same time it shows that the eruption wa 
a scale which might almost be called catastrophic. K actos 
the Straits of Sunda. Dr. Verbeck thinks that sow 
have been admitted thus to the molten matter bene lcanic plo- 
form steam at high pressure. The sound of the VOCA sixth o 
sion of August last was heard over a space 
the earth’s circumference. So violent were 
d 
and a quarter times round the circumference O 
large tidal wave appears to have been caused by 
