SPECIAL WORK. 
Mamm. 21 
Manigault, Ghinchillidce ; Sternberg, p. 16 (cranium) ; WinczA, 
Artiodactyla (clavicle) ; Windle & Humphreys, Canidce. 
Urino-genital Organs.— S ee Hamburger, p. 6 (kidney) ; Meek, 
Ilystricidce ; Retterek, p. 13, and Cetacea (penis) ; Robinson, p. 13 
(ovary). 
Vascular System & Heart. — Hill, Leporidce (abnormal vein) ; 
Hochstetter, Rodentia (development of artery) ; Kulczycki, Equidce 
(abnormal artery) ; Rose, p. 13 (heart). 
IV.— SPECIAL WORK. 
( Extinct genera and species are indicated by a j*.) 
\. —PRIMATES. 
ANTHROPOIDEA. 
Beevor, C. E., & Horsley, V. An Experimental Investigation into the 
Arrangement of the Excitable Fibres of the Internarial Capsule of 
the Bonnet Monkey ( Macacus sinicus). P. R. Soc. xlvii, pp. 21 & 22. 
[Abstract.] 
°Morsblli, E. Sulla Fossetta Vorraiana noi Primati. Atti Soc. Ligust. 
i, fasc. 2. [Soo Mouit. Zool. Ital. i, pp. 142 & 143.] 
Observations on the vermian fossa in the higher Apes ; the fossa so- 
called being one in the middle line of the basioccipital, first described by 
Albrecht. 
Ristori, G. Le Scimmie Fossili Italiane. Boll. Com. Geol. (3) i, pp. 
178-199 & 226-237, pis. vii & viii. 
The first part describes and figures a number of remains of Oreopi- 
thecus from the Middle Miocene of Monte Bamboli. In discussing the 
affinities of the genus it is shown that while presenting a number of 
features, such as the length of the dental series, and the form and elonga- 
tion of the last molar, especially the lower one, with the Cercopithecidce , 
as represented by Cynocephalus and Semnopithecus ; yet there are many 
points of affinity with the Simiida >,. Some of the best marked of the 
latter points are the shortness of the face and rounding of the chin, the 
diagonal arrangement and tendency to separation of the tubercles of the 
molars, and the approximation in the shape of the premolars to the molars. 
It is concluded that the genus should probably be regarded as representing 
an ancestral type of the Simiida}. The second part of the paper treats of 
Semnopithecus monspessulanus ; while the third part is devoted to Macacus 
( Inuus ) jlorentinus. This species was originally described as the type of 
the genus Aulaxinuus ; the later Macacus ausonianus, F. Major, being a 
synonym. 
