II. MAMMALIA. 
2 Mamrri . 
INTRODUCTION. 
The number of entries is again in excess (this time very largely) of those 
of the preceding year. This annual increase is in great part due to the 
practice of devoting a separate article to the description of one or two 
unimportant species or varieties—sometimes a single species or even 
variety. This practice encuffibers literature for all future time—with, 
apparently, but little compensating advantage. Unfortunately, the afore¬ 
said increase in the amount of literature is not accompanied by a corre¬ 
sponding augmentation in the separate copies of works sent for the 
recorder’s assistance. 
Among the more important literature of the year, a foremost place 
must be accorded to Anderson and De Winton’s Mammals of Egypt. 
The labours of Andrews, supplemented by those of Beadnell, on the 
extinct Mammals of the same country, are gradually making known the 
affinities and extent of a most wonderful fauna. 
The appearance of Lankester’s memoir on the Okapi, coupled with the 
preliminary notices by Forsyth-Major of the Belgian examples of that 
animal, are noteworthy events of the year. The development and homo¬ 
logies of horns and antlers hav.e received attention at the hands of Durst, 
Gadow, and Lankester ; and attention may likewise be directed to 
Elliot Smith’s memoirs on mammalian brains —especially the one re¬ 
lating to Diprotodonts. 
Beddard’s volume on Mammals in the “ Cambridge Natural History ” 
has been published during the year : and Hay’s “ Catalogue of the Fossil 
Vertebrata. of North America” is a work of great value to the palae¬ 
ontologist. 
I. TITLES.* 
1. Abel, 0. Les Dauphins longirostres du Bolderien (Miocene Superieur) 
des environs d’An vers. Pt. ii. Mem. Mus. Belgique ii, pp. 101-188, 
pis. xi-xviii. [ Cetacea .] 
2. -. Die Ursache der Asymmetrie des Zahnlwalschadels. SB. Ak. 
Wien cxi, sep. pp. 17, 1 pi. [ Cetacea .] 
3. Adachi, B. Hautpigment beim Menschen und bei den Affen. Anat. 
Anz. xxi, pp. 16-18. [Primates.'] 
4. Adloff, P. Zur Kenntniss des Zahnsystems von Hyrax. Zeitschr. 
Morphol. v, pp. 181-200, pis. iv & v. [ ffyracoidea.] 
5. Adolphi, H. Ueber ein Hundeskelet mit sogenannten “Halsrippen ” 
bei nur 26 Prasacralwirbeln. Morphol. Jahrb. xxx, pp. 374 & 375. 
[Carnivora.] 
6. Alezais, —. Les adducteurs de la cuisse chez les Rongeurs. J. 
Anat. Physiol, xxxviii, pp. 1-13, figg. [Rodentia.] 
7. -. Etude anatomique du Cobaye (Catna cobay a). T. c. pp. 259- 
275 & 624-648, figg. [Caviidce.] 
8. -. Le membre pelvien du Kangurou. Ann. Mus. Marseille vii, 
pp. .113-133, pis. ix & x. [Marsupialia.] 
* An asterisk prefixed to a quotation indicates that the recorder lias not seen 
the Journal or Work referred to. . . . 
