THE GENERAL SUBJECT. 
Mamm. o 
division. [See also Tamiodonta , Tillodonta , Creodonta , Perissodactyla, 
Artiodactyla.'] 
Cowan, W. Deans. Notes on the Natural History of Madagascar. 
P. It. Soc. Edinb. vii. pt. 1, p. 133. 
Contains information as to the distribution of the Mammals met with 
by the author. 
Cunningham, D. J. Report on some points in the anatomy of the 
Thylacine ( Tliylacinus cynoceplialus ), Cuscus ( Phalangisla maculata ), 
and Phascogale ( Phascogale calura ), collected during the voyage of 
H.M.S. ‘Challenger’ in the years 1873-76, with an account of the 
comparative anatomy of the intrinsic muscles and the nerves of the 
Mammaliau Pes. Rep. Expl. Yoy. H.M.S. ‘Challenger,’ Zool. v. 
1882. 
Contains the detailed anatomy of these animals, with incidental notes 
on many others. The muscles of the foot are especially fully worked out 
and figured, with particular reference to their relations to one another, 
and in comparison with those of various other Mammals of all Orders. 
An abstract of the author’s results as to the evolution of the pedal 
muscles has been already published \cf. Zool. Rec. xv. Mamm. p. 3]. 
Darwin, C. [See Yan Dyck, W.] 
Denis, A. Hyeres ancien et moderne. Hyeres: 1882, 8vo. 
Contains (p. 582) a few notes on the Mammals of Hyeres. 
De Sanctis, L. [See Physeteridce.] 
Dobson, G. E. A Monograph of the Insectivora , Systematic and Ana- 
tomical. Part i. London : Jan. 1882, 4to. [See below, Insecti- 
vora, p. 25]. 
. On the Digastric Muscle, its Modifications and Functions. 
Tr. L. S. (2) ii. p. 259. 
Gives an account of the variations in the form of this muscle in 
various Mammalia. 
. On the Homologies of the Long Flexor Muscles of the Feet of 
Mammalia , with remarks on the value of their leading modifications 
in classification. J. Anat. Phys. xvii. p. 142. [Abstract in Rep. 
Brit. Ass. 1882, p. 574.] 
This paper contains accounts, most of which are original, of the deep 
flexor muscles of the feet of various Mammalia, especially of the Insec- 
tivora. The author considers that there are two chief types of arrange- 
ment of the tendons of -these muscles, calling them the Centetes- and the 
Erinaceus- typos. In the first of these the tendon of the flexor digitorutn 
tibialis is united in the foot with that of the flexor digitorum fibularis ; 
in the second these two tendons are entirely distinct from each other. 
The author then proceeds to draw various deductions from the facts 
observed in reference to the natural positions of certain groups of 
Mammals. 
