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gentleman the desirability of the original hone of the Dinornis being 
deposited in the British Museum, he most liberally permitted me to submit 
to the Trustees an offer, as a donation, of the entire collection made by his 
father and grandfather, including the original specimen which initiated the 
series of papers on the Dinornis that have since appeared in the 1 Zoological 
Transactions.’ ” 
A new Fossil Ape of the Demur Group. — In the “Transactions of the Linnean 
Society of Bordeaux ” for the present year M. Delfortrie describes the osteolo- 
gical characters of the cranium of a new species of fossil ape belonging to the 
family of the Lemurs, found by M. Betille in the phosphate beds of Sainte- 
Neboule de Beduer, Lot, Frauce ; and the “Academy,” Nov. 15, gives the 
following account of it : — “ The skull, which is entire, is of an elongated 
conical form, and represents an adult individual. The occipital crest is 
slightly projecting, but wide in consequence of the development of the 
mastoids. The parietals are very spreading, constituting nearly the whole 
of the cerebral arch. The temporals are flat, elongated, and exceed in 
height the half of that of the orbits. The frontal depressed, bearing a keel 
upon the median line. The orbital circle is closed, of nearly oblique oval 
form, strongly inclined towards the nose. The nasal bones are very 
elongated, slightly raised on the median line, and inclined on their exterior 
edge towards the junction with the maxillaries. The cranial characters 
are remarkably similar to those of the Lori grele , but the dental system 
shows it to belong to an entirely new genus of the Makis family. With the 
exception of the principal and the two right hind molars, all the teeth were 
broken off by the workman’s pick, but the roots of all of them, with the 
exception of the incisors, are adherent to the alveolae, which are still 
intact, so that on allowing the normal number for the incisors, the series is 
found to be as follows: incisors two, canine one, premolars four, principal 
molar one, hind molars two. An insectivorous character is displayed in the 
sharp denticulation of the preserved teeth. To this fossil M. Delfortrie 
assigns the name of Palceolemur Betillei. While his paper was in the press 
M. Delfortrie received from the above locality a right mandible belonging 
to an individual of the same species. He has since forwarded both 
specimens to M. Albert Gaudry, who recognises in them many affinities 
with the Eocene or Miocene pachyderms, and traces a specific identity 
between the new fossil and Aplielotherium Duvernoyi, Gervais, and Adapis 
Parisiensis, Cuvier, both from the Paris gypsum ; as well as with the Adapis 
from Barthelemy, near Apt. 
An Examination of the Fossils from the Phosphate Beds of Quercy. — In the 
last volume of the “ Comptes Bendus ” of the French Academy M. P. 
Gervais gives the results of his examination of these deposits. Among the 
collections examined was that of M. Daudibertiere, which was remarkable 
for the number and good preservation of its specimens, containing some 
fine examples of Palceotherium analogous to those occurring in the Paris 
gypsum beds, and some remains of Rhinoceros minutus and Acerotherium . 
There are also some teeth of a mammal related to Rhinoceros, but differing' 
from that genus in some essential characters. M. Gervais, therefore, 
proposes a new genus for its reception, which he designates Cadurcotherium , 
and the species Cad. Cayluxi, from Caylux, whence it was obtained , 
