MONTHLY NOTICE. 



MONTHLY NOTICE, 



1st. June, 1842. 



Since we closed our comment on the reports of the pro- 

 ceedings of the Geological Society of London, last month, 

 other facts have come under our observation which suggest 

 a renewal of the remarks we then made^ more especially rela- 

 tive to the publication of the Reports^ under the sanction of 

 the Society, without any notice being appended as to the 

 opinions expressed on occasions when the merits of the com- 

 munications were severally discussed. 



We will refer our readers to those Reports which we 

 insert this month, amongst which will be found that of a 

 paper read at the above Society, on the " Tetracaulodon,'^ in 

 which Mr. Koch apparently estal^lishes the identity of that 

 genus; nothing to the contrary being stated in the publication 

 which the Society has since issued.* 



Our readers will have observed that great interest has 

 recently been attached to the identification of the fossil 

 remains now exhibiting in Mr. Koch's collection, and the 

 Geological Society has considered them worthy of that criti- 

 cal examination which Mr. Owen is alone competent to 

 undertake. We have briefly reported his statements in a 

 preceding number of our work, to which no comment was 

 appended by the Geological Society ; and we considered,, at 

 the time, that, in the opinion of the Society, the subject had 

 received ample attention at their hands, and the question 

 was fully decided. 



How comes it then that Mr. Koch submits a communica- 

 tion to that Society, which they publish^ and which, disagree- 

 ing in some measure from the results of Professor Owen^s 

 examination, nevertheless goes forth virtually under their 



* From a paragraph in Richardson's " Geology for Beginners," we 

 learn that Prof. Grant considers the genus " Tetracaulodon" well founded. 

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