ZOOLOGICAL RECOllD 
FOR 1879. 
MAMMALIA. 
JiY 
W. A. Forces, B.A., F.L.S., F.G.S., Prosector to the 
Zoological Society, 
During the year 1879, the progress ip ou^ kn^wlerige of the Mammalia 
has been satisfactory, although no very startling discoveries or novel- 
ties may have come to light. The most important memoirs published 
during the year are perhaps contained in Anderson’s (p, 2) and Blan- 
ford’s {ihid.) accounts of the expeditions to Western Yu u nan and 
Yarkand. The commencement of Godman & Salvin’s (p. 5) magnificent 
work on the Natural History of Central America must also be noticed 
here ; and Trouessart (p. 8) has continued his General Catalogue of Mam- 
mals. The anatomy of the Mammalia has been studied by numerous 
observers, amongst whom may be particularly noted Anderson (p. 2), Alix 
(pp. 9, 11, & 26), Garrod (pp. 10, 13, & 15), Turner (p. 8), and Watson 
{ibid.). Many new forms of extipct life have continued to be revealed by 
the paleontological researches of Cope (p. 3), Marsh (p. 6), and Osborn, 
Scott, and Speir (p. 7), in the New World ; the discovery of numerous 
Mammalia oi Jurassic age in that hemisphere being particularly inte- 
resting. With these may be ranked in interest the new form of anthro- 
poid Ape discovered by Lydekker in the Siwalik Hills (p. 6). The 
observations of Fries (p. 4), Eimer (p. 4), and Beneke (p. 2), as well as 
those of Milne-Edwards (p. 6), though not absolutely new, are also well 
worthy of notice. 
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