ZOOLOGICAL HECOED 
FOR 1876. 
MAMMALIA 
by- 
Edward Richard Alston, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 
The year 1876 has been a marked one in the department of Geogra- 
phical Zoology, Wallace’s long expected and admirably executed -work 
on the. Distribution of Animals having at length appeared \infrd^ p. 7], 
as have also valuable memoirs on similar subjects by Sclater [p. 6], 
Von Pelzeln [p. 6], Blanford [p. 2], and Lydekker [p. 5]. Of works 
mentioned in former years, Milne-Edwards and Grandidier’s great 
Fauna of Madagascar [p. 5], and Van Beneden and Gervais’ work on 
the Cetacea [p. 14] have been continued, while the last-named naturalist 
has begun a new series of his palaeontological and zoological memoirs 
[p. 4]. Turner has carried still further his exposition of the various 
types of placentation [pp. 7, 10, 23], and Terrier has summed up the 
result of his experiments on the brain [p. 4]. At length there has 
been a slackening in the flow of palaeontological novelties from America, 
but Marsh [pp. 12, 16, 17] and Cope [p. 12] have added considerably to 
our knowledge of the wonderful forms which they had previously dis- 
covered, while Wallace’s [p. 7] and Flower’s [pp. 4, 9, 17] critical reviews 
of their labours have done much towards bringing their conclusions 
into conformity and order. 
THE GENERAL SUBJECT. 
Albrecht, — . Bejtrag zur Torsionstheorie des Humerus, und zur 
morphologischen Stellung der Patella in der Reihe der Wirbel- 
1876. [voL. xii[.] B 1 
