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REPORT ON ZOOLOGY, MDCCCXLIII.
collected the materials of the Zoology of the Voyage ofII.M. S. Sulphur, under the command of Captain Sir E.Belcher. Mammalia by J. E. Gray . Lond. 1843. 2d Part.
The diagnoses of the greater part of the species had been previously givenby Gray , and were noticed in our last year’s Report. These are now fol-lowed by descriptions, greater detail in which is certainly not unfrequentlyto be desired. The figures are beautifully executed. The Mammalia areconcluded in this second part.
As contributions, of a more general nature, to the Faunaof the Mammalia of the ancient world, are briefly to beadduced:
II. v. Meyer, ‘ Summary View of the Fossil Vertebrata of the Tertiary Basinof Mayence’ (Jahrb. fur Mineralog. 1843, p. 379), to which succeed re-marks upon the fossil Mammalia of the Brown-coal of theWesterwald, of theMardolce-caves in Sicily , and of the diluvial formation of Mosbach (ib. p.581), and also on the Mammalian remains from various regions (ib. p. 698).Owen’s ‘ Reports on the Fossil Mammalia of England ’ (Instit. 1843, p. 55)have now appeared in a separate work, which will be adverted to in the nextReport. Pomel 1 On the Fossil Mammalia of the Auvergne ’ (Instit. 1843,p. 218). Memoria per servire all’ illustrazione dei grandi Mammiferi fossili,esistenti nell gabinetto di Santa Teresa in Milano, p. G. Balsamo Crivelli.Milano, 1842, (briefly abstracted in the Isis, 1843, p. 629). A. v. Nord-rnann, ‘ Ueber die bis jetzt mir bekannt gewordenen Fundorte von fossilenKnochen in Sudrussland ’ (On the Localities of Fossil Bones in SouthRussia). (Bullet, de la Classe physico-mathematique de l’Academie desSci. de St. Petersbourg, i. 1843, p. 197.) J. H. Cooper, on the Fossilsfound in the construction of the New Brunswick Canal, in Georgia (Ann.Nat. Hist. xii. p. 70). In the recent clay alluvium the bones of the Mega-therium occur, together with those of Mastodon, giganteum, Hippopotamus ,the Mammoth, and Horse . The bones were not worn, and many belonging tothe same skeleton were met with grouped together. An abstract of Lund’slatest contributions to the ancient and present Fauna of Brazil have beengiven by the Reporter in these Archives (p. 347), and some remarksappended. The ‘ Literatur fiber Fahrten and Fahrten-Abdrficke urwelt-licher Thiere in den Gesteinen der festen Erdrinde ’ (Literature on thesubject of the footsteps and impressions of footsteps of extinct animals in therocks of the earth’s crust), has been collected with great completeness byR. Bernhardi in the ‘Halleschen Literaturzeitung,’ 1843, complementarysheet, p. 441.