Mamm. ] 
ZOOLOGICAL RECORD 
FOR 1880. 
MAMMALIA. 
BY 
W. A. Forbes, B.A., F.L.S., F.G.S., Prosector to the 
Zoological Society. 
Like 1879, the year 1880 has added much to our knowledge of the Mam- 
malia, both from a general and from a special point of view. The com- 
pletion of Van Beneden & Gervais’s great work on the Osteology of the 
Cetacea (p. 3), with the appearance of Allen’s Monograph of the North 
American Pinnipeds (p. 2), are, perhaps, the most important features in 
the year’s w’ork. Burmeister’s work on the Mammalia of the Argentine 
Republic (p. 3) may also be noted here ; whilst the finely illustrated 
works of Elliot (p. 5) and of Salvin & Godman (p. 6) have quite sustained 
the reputation of their authors. 
Amongst fossil Mammalia, important discoveries have been made by 
Filhol (p. 6) in Europe, and by, Cope (p. 4) and Marsh (pp. 29 & 30) in 
America, the discoveries of the latter necessitating, in his opinion, the 
formation of two new Mammalian orders. 
The labours of Alston (p. 2) and of Garrod (p. 5) have, unfortunately 
for science, ceased ; but the study of the embryology, anatomy, and classi- 
fication of the Mammalia is being carried on as energetically as ever by 
Balfour (p. 2), E. van Beneden (p. 2), Hoffmann (p. 6), Huxley (p. 7), 
Krueg (p. 7), Sabatier (p. 8), and others. 
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