Mamm. 1 
ZOOLOGICAL RECORD 
FOR 1882. 
MAMMALIA. 
BY 
Oldfield Thomas, F.Z.S. 
The year 1882 does not differ materially from its predecessor in the 
large number of papers, anatomical, systematic, and faunal, which have 
appeared, while, with but one or two exceptions, few separate works of 
importance have been published. 
A complete natural history of the Insectivora has been commenced 
by Dobson (p. 25), whilst Flower (p. 37) has revised the arrangement of 
the Edentata , and Mivart (p. 18) that of the JEluroidea. Valuable ana- 
tomical work has been done by these authors, as also by Forbes (pp. 22, 
35, 38), the late Mammal Recorder, whose last papers are now noted, by 
Klein (pp. 9, 19), Kolliker (p. 9), Lankester (pp. 22, 39), Lewis (p. 10), 
Robin (p. 23), and others. No very important faunal publications have 
appeared, though Collett (p. 4), Merriam (p. 11), Muller (p. 11), Winge 
(p. 16), and others, have contributed papers illustrative of the faunas 
of comparatively small or well-known districts. 46 new recent species 
have been described, as compared with 36 in 1881, and 38 in 1880. 
THE GENERAL SUBJECT. 
Allen, II. On a Revision of the Ethmoid Bone in the Mammalia , with 
special reference to the description of this bone and of the sense of 
smelling in the Chiroptera. Bull. Mus. C. Z. x. p. 135 (No. 3). 
Contains descriptions of the ethmoid in the Mammalia generally, and 
more in detail of that of the horse, peccary, sloth, cat, seal, mole, and of 
many genera of Chiroptera. The author comes to the conclusion that the 
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