4 Mainm. 
MAMMALIA. 
David, A. Journal de mon troisieme voyage d’exploration dans I’Em- 
pire Chinois. Paris : 1875, sra. 8vo, 2 vols. pp. 383, 384. 
Contains occasional notes on animals, and (ii. chap, xxi.) observations 
on the geographical distribution of Chinese Mammals. 
Dodson, G. E. On Peculiar Structures in the Feet of certain Species 
of Mammals which enable them to walk on smooth perpendicular 
surfaces. P. Z. S. 1876, pp. 526-535, pi. Iv. 
Describes the suctorial and adhesive foot-pads of species of Vesperugo, 
Mystacina, Thyroptera, and Hyrax. 
Ferrier. D. The Functions of the Brain. London : 1876, 8vo, 
pp. 323. 
Contains the result of the author’s experiments on the physiology of 
the cerebro-spinal system. \_Cf. Zool. Bee. xii. p. 2.] 
Flower, W. H. Hunterian Lectures on the Belation of Extinct 
to Exis*ling Mammalia. (Abstract) Nature, xiii. pp. 307 & 308, 
327 & 328, 350-352, 387 & 388, 409 & 410, 449 & 450, 487 & 488, 
513 & 514, xiv. p. 11. 
A review of our knowledge of fossil Mammals, with particular atten- 
tion to the recent discoveries in N. America. 
. The Extinct Animals of North America. P. B. Inst. viii. pp. 
103-125. 
Gives a brief but clear account of the recent discoveries of Leidy, 
Marsh, and Cope. 
Frivaldsky, J. Adatok Mdramaros vArniegye faundjdhoz (Data for a 
Fauna of the Maramaroz Comitat [of Hungary]). Term. Kozl. 
ix. (1875) pp. 183-232. 
Gervais, P. Zoologie et Paldontologie Gdnerales. 2>“e ser. liv. 14-16, 
pp. 1-72, pis. i.-xiii. 4to, Paris: 1876. 
After a long interval, the publication of this valuable miscellany is 
resumed. The principal matters treated of in these parts are fossil 
Monkeys and Lemurs, the Mammalian remains of the phosphate chalks 
of Tarn-et-Garonne and Lot [c/. C. B. Ixxiv. (1872) pp. 1217-1223, 
1367-1371], and notes on certain genera of Carnivora. 
Giedel, C. G. Dr. H. G. Bronn’s Klassen und Ordnungen des Thier- 
Beichs, Abth. 6, Mammalia ; Nos. 11 & 12. Leipzig & Heidelberg : 
1876, 8vo, pp. 161-244, pis. xliii.-xlvii. 
Both text and plates of these numbers are devoted to the dentition of 
the various orders. [^Cf. Zool. Bee. xii. p. 3.] 
Gordon, T. E. The Boof of the World, being a Narrative of a 
Journey over the high plateau of Tibet to the Bussian Frontier 
and the Oxus Sources on Pamir. Edinburgh : 1876, 8vo, pp. 172. 
Contains occasional notes on Tibetan Mammals, especially on Ovis 
poli. 
Grandidier, a. [See Milne-Edwards, A.] 
