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MAMMALIA. 
DebierrE. C. Sur le Muscle de PIris de 1’Homme. C.R. Soc. Biol. (8) 
v, pp. 361 & 362. 
A comment on the conclusions of Retterer (p. 17) with regard to the 
muscle of the iris, in which the author mainly agrees with that writer. 
Harrison, A. The Palatal Ruga) in Man. P. Ac. Philad. 1888, 
pp. 254-272, woodcuts. 
Notes and figures the variations occurring in these rugae, and records 
their connection with disease. 
KOlliker, A. Die Entwicklung des menschlichen Nagels. Z. wiss. 
Zool. xlvii, pp. 129-154, pis. xiii-xv. 
An elaborate memoir on the development of the human nails. Re- 
viewed by Q. Durand, J. de l’Anat. Pbys. xxiv, pp. 260-263. 
Prenant, A. Note sur la Structure des Spermatozoides chez 1’Homme. 
C.R. Soc. Biol. (8) v, pp. 288-290. 
In this communication the author points out that certain peculiarities 
described by Jensen [see Zool. Rec. xxiv, Mamin, p. 7] in the sperma- 
tozoa of many Mammals also occur in those of Man. 
b. Cercopithecidjj. 
Cercopithecua stampfiii , u. sp., F. A. Jentink, Notes Leyd. Mus. x, 
p. 10, Liberia. 
II. LEMUROIDEA. 
Turner, W. An Additional Contribution to the Placentation of the 
Lemurs. P. R. Soc. xliv, pp. 277-282. 
Describes the placentation of several genera, and concludes, from the 
megallantoid and non- deciduate character of the placenta in the Lemurs, 
that these animals should constitute a distinct order — the Prositnii. 
a. Lemuridj:. 
t Gcenopithecus lemuroides : the dentition redescribed and figured by L. 
ROtimeyer, Abh. schw. pal. Ges. xv, p. 30, pi. i, figs. 1 & 2, by whom it is 
regarded as allied to the American Pelycodus. 
t Adapts parisiensis ( duvernoyi ) : the dentition described and figured by 
Rutimeyer, t. c. p. 36, pi. i, figs. 3 & 4. 
iAdapia angustidens, n. sp., II. Filiiol, Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) xii, pp. 
10-12, Quercy Phosphorites, France ; figured by E. L. Bouvjer, Lo Nat. 
1888, p. 168, fig. 3. 
2. OAPNIVORA. 
For the Indian species, see W. T. Blanford, supra , p. 3. 
Allen, H. The Oceipito-temporal Region in the Carnivora. Science, 
xi, p. 71. 
States that the post-tympanic described by the author as occurring iu 
Ursus above the squamosal and opisthotic, is probably also present in 
