ZOOLOGICAL RECORD 
FOR 1874. 
MAMMALIA. 
B7 
Edward Richard Alston, F.Z.S. 
Several works of importance have been added to the literature of this 
class in the past year. Of these attention may be specially directed to 
the completion of H. & A. Milne-Ed wards’ admirable memoirs {infrd^ 
p. 4), to Lilljeborg’s Mammals of Scandinavia (p. 3), to Scammon’s 
interesting addition to our knowledge of the fauna of the North Pacific 
(p. 4), and to the. continuation of Van Beneden & Gervais’ great work on 
the Cetacea (p. 11). Gray’s List of the Seals in the British Museum (p. 3) 
may be noticed as the last of .the very long series of that indefatigable 
naturalist’s contributions to science. As in 1873, special notice is due to 
the labours of Leidy (p. 14), Marsh (pp. 4, 13), and Cope (p. 2), among 
the remains of the Mammals of the American Tertiary periods ; unfor- 
tunately, their very valuable facts appear to accumulate with such 
rapidity as to cause some confusion in nomenclature and systematic 
arrangement. 
The General Subject. 
Alt.en, J. A. Notes on the Natural History of portions of Dakota and 
Montana ; Mammals. P. Bost. Soc. xvii. pp. 37-43. 
A list of 31 species collected during the North Pacific Railroad Expe- 
dition of 1873. 
Bell, T. History of British Quadrupeds, second edition, revised and 
partly rewritten by the author, assisted by R. F. Tomes and E. R. 
Alston. London : 1874. 8vo, pp. 474, woodcuts. 
1874. [voL. XI.] B 
