THE3 GENERAL SUBJECT, PRIMATES. 6 
Gr. Busk gives a list of Mammalia from a rock-jBssure cavern in 
Derbyshire, referred to Ursus, Hyama^ Canis, Gulo^ Bos, Cervus, Ovis, 
Equus, Rhinoceros, Elephas, Arvicola, and Lepus. Tom. cit. pp. 683-691. 
L. M. D’Albertis finds Mammals very scarce in southern New 
Guinea ; hitherto he has only obtained a Cuscus, a Belideus, a few insec- 
tivorous Bats, a Pteropus, Sus papuensis, and Dorcopsis luctuosa \infrd 
p. 23]. P. Z. S. 1875, pp. 531 & 532. 
J. J. Monteiro gives occasional notes on the Mammalian fauna in his 
work “Angola and the River Congo.” London ; 1875, 2 vols. 8vo. 
J. J. Rein remarks on the distribution of 13 species of Japanese 
Mammals. Zool. Gart. 1875, pp. 55-58. 
W. Stricker has. notes on the fauna of Pomerania and the extinc- 
tion of the wolf and lynx. Tom. cit. pp. 175-177. 
J. C. Melliss, “ St. Helena,” Londoij, 1875, cr. 8vo, pp. 79-87, gives a 
list with observations of the indigenous and imported Mammals of that 
island. 
R. Cunningham has published a popular lecture “ On the Geographi- 
cal distribution of Mammals ; ” P. Belf. Soc. 1875, pp. 63-85. 
Pan SCH writes on the brain of Mammals; Schr. Ver. Schlesw. Holst, 
i. p. 191 \cf. Arch. f. Nat. 1875, ii. p. 54] : and W. Gruber on sesamoid 
bones in the hyaline cartilages of the head of the gastrocnemius muscle 
in Man and Mammals ; Mem. P^tersb. (7) xxii. No. 4, pis. i.-iv. 
MONODBLPHIA. 
PRIMA.TBS. 
J. A. Fischer discusses the treatment of diseased tails in Monjieys in 
confinement. Zool. Gart. 1875, pp. 325-335. * 
St. G. MiVart in the article “ Ape ” in the Encyclopaedia Britannica 
(9th Ed. ii. pp. 148-169, figs. 1-19, London: 1875) reviews the classifica- 
tion, anatomy, distribution in time and space, and affinities of the Mon- 
keys. The families and sub-families adopted* are : — 1. Simiidce with 
Simiince, Sernnopithecince and Cynopithecince ; and II. Cebidce with Cebince, 
Mycetince, Pithecince, Nyctipitkecince, and Hapalince. 
SiMIID.®. 
Troglodytes niger. R. Hartmann continues his notes on the osteology 
and dentition of the “ Bam- Chimpanzee ” [cf. Zool. Rec. ix. p. 7]. 
Arch. Anat. Phys. 1875, pp. 265-303, pis. vii. & viii. 
Troglodytes gorilla. On a supposed living Gorilla in the Dresden 
Zoological Gardens ; F. C. Noll,- Zool. Gart. 1875, pp. 361-363 ; A. 
Brehm, tom. cit. p. 392. The specimen determined to be a Chimpanzee ; 
A. B. Meyer, Nature, xiii. p. 106. 
Cercopithecid.®. , 
Macacus rheso-similis, Scl., = problematicus, Gr., = assamensis ? ; P. L. 
Sclater, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 418. 
Macacus speciosus figured ; id. tom. cit. pi. xlvii. 
