2 Mamin. 
II. MAMMALIA. 
lemuroid Megaladapis. From a distributional point of view the recorded 
occurrence of Mellivora in Transcaspia is of considerable interest ; and 
our knowledge of the Mammalian fauna of Africa has received consider- 
able additions from the labours of Matsciiie, Sclatisr, and Thomas. 
Among anatomical work, the investigations of Beddard on the brain of 
the Proboscidea , and of Deiuerre and Bole on that of the Carnivora 
deserve special mention. 
The subject of the development and homology of teeth continues to 
attract a large number of workers. Osborn’s paper on this subject and 
the general evolution of Mammals will be found of more than ordinary 
interest, as are his researches on the dentition of the Cretaceous Mammals 
of the Laramie beds. From the circumstance that the permanent teeth of 
the Marsupials aro believed to belong to the first scries, this author states 
that Placentals cannot have had a Marsupial origin. On the other hand, 
Klaatsgh’s interesting investigations regarding the existence of vestiges 
of a marsupium in Placentals, lead him to draw precisely the opposite 
conclusion. 
As regards fossil forms, Dames’s memoir on the Zeuglodonts is one of 
prime importance, not less from a classificatory point of view than from 
the evidence he adduces as to the presence of a dermal armour in these 
Cetaceans. Dermal armour of another kind has led Fjliiol to believe in 
the presence of loricate Edentates among the Quercy Phosphorite fauna ; 
and even if his conclusions on this point be not upheld, it would seem 
that he has proved that pangolins and aard-varks inhabited France at the 
epoch in question. Not less noteworthy is TouLA’ssdiscovery of remains 
of Titanotheres, hitherto regarded as an exclusively North American 
group, in the Tertiary of the Balkans. 
I. — TITLES.* 
Alessandrini, G. Prime Notizie Anatomiche di un Tragulus morto in 
Roma. Boll. Soc. Rom. Zool. ii, pp. 141-149. 
. Notizie Anatomiche sulle Glaudole annesse all* Apparato Digerento 
del Tragulus meminna, Erxl. T. c. pp. 269-271. 
Allen, H. Introduction to a Monograph of the North American Bats. 
P. U. S. Mus. xvi, pp. 1-28. 
. Notes on the Genera of Vesper tiliouidce. T. c. pp. 29-31. 
Allen, J. A. Descriptions of Four New Species of Thomomys , with 
remarks on other Species of the Genus. Bull. Amer. Mus. v, pp. 47- 
68. [See p. 32, Geomyidce.'] 
* An asterisk prefixed to a quotation indicates that the Recorder has not Been the 
Journal or Work referred to. 
