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MAMMALIA. 
Wood, J. On a group of varieties of the muscles of the human 
neck, shoulder, and chest, with their transitional forms and 
homologies in the Mammalia. Phil. Trans, vol. clx. 1870, 
pp. 83-116, 3 plates. 
Friedlowsky describes a malformation of a hand of Macacus 
cynomolgus with only four fingers. Vorh. Z.-B. Ges. Wien, 
1870, pp. 1017-1026, Taf. 15. figs. 3-5. 
The same author has observed a lobed gall-bladder in a Cat and 
a Cercopithecus sab(eus. Ibid. pp. 1027-1032, Taf. 15, figs. 1, 2. 
Quadrumana. 
RAY, J. E. Catalogue of Monkeys, Lemurs, and Fruit-eating 
Bats in the collection of the British Museum. London : 
1870, 8vo, pp. 137, woodcuts. 
This work contains diagnoses and the synonymy of the species 
which are in the British-Museum collection, or which the author 
knows from autopsy. References are also given to all the re- 
maining species described from other collections ; and therefore 
the work must be consulted by all students of these groups. 
Synoptical tables facilitate much the determination of individual 
specimens. The woodcuts are reproduced from the Proc. Zool. 
Soc. 
Fitzinger, L. j. Revision der Ordnung der Halbaffen oder 
.dEffer (Hemipitheci) . I. Abth. Familie der Makis (Le- 
mures). SB. Ak. Wien, 1870, Ixii. pp. 589-666. II. Abth. 
StenopeSj Otolicni, and Galeopitheci, Ibid. pp. 685-783. 
This announcement will suffice. 
Bischofp, Th. L. W. Beitriige zur Anatomic des Hylobates 
leuciscus, und zu einer vcrglcichendcn Anatoinie der Miis- 
keln der Affen und des Menschen. Abh. Bayr. Ak. Wiss. x. 
1870, pp. 199-297, 5 plates. 
This memoir contains (1) an account of the general anatomy 
of Hylobates leuciscusj and (2») a detailed description of its myo- 
logy, which is compared with that of Man and several Monkeys. 
In a synoptical table all the characteristics of the several mus- 
cles in the Gorilla, Oraug, Chimpanzee, Hylobates^ Mandrill, 
Cercopithecus J MacacuSj Pithecia, and Hapale are placed side 
by side, and their relations to those of the corresponding muscles 
in Man shown. The views regarding the differences between hand 
and foot are critically examined. The author comes to the con- 
clusion that the statement that the anthropoid Apes are more 
nearly allied to Man with regard to their muscles than to 
Monkeys of lower degree, is not correct. He confirms the 
correctness of the view expressed by Luca that the , posterior 
hand of Apes osteologically resembles the human hand much 
