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ZOOLOGY. 311
ZOOLOGY.
A FOUR-LEGGED ROCK LAR.- 011 November 23rd, while walk-
ing on the seashore in the vicinityof Plymouth,I saw the most
312 ZOOLOGY.
of our canaries had a bad cold, her quick ear having detected a
wheezing sound like that of a catarrh. It had continued already
for several days. Being myself very unpleasantly affectedby the
odor of some flowers,I guessed the cause to be the contiguity
of the hyacinths growing in glasses, and now fillingthe room
with perfume. These flowers,which were close to the cage of
the sick bird, were now taken fromthe room and the bird showed
immediate relief, and in a day was well.- S. LOCKWOOD, Feb-
ruary 14.
GEOLOGY.
ON THE TUSK OF LOXOLOPHODON CORNUTUS.- ProfessorMarsh
asserts that I have reversedthe positions of the tusks of this spe-
cies, placing that of the left side onlthe right,etc. This statement
is not true, as I have carefullydistinguished the sides in my de-
scription (Short-footedUngulata, etc., p. 10). Ill my plate 2d the
inner side is not represented as the outer, as the inner surfaces
of attrition are omitted,and the external represented. Like his
other charges this one results from a misapprehension. Having
seen a photograph ill which,for the assistance of the artist,the
left tusk was taken on the right side, he at once concludes that
my lithographrepresentsit in the same position.- E. D. COPE.
ANTHROPO3 OL GY.
EXISTENCE OF MAN IN THE MIOCENE.- I have received a letter
from Mr. Edmutnd.Calvert, in which he informs me that his
brother,Mr. Frank Calvert, has recently discovered, near the
Dardanelles, what he regards as conclusive evidence of the exist-
ence of man during the Miocene period. Mr. Calvert had previ-
ously sent me some drawings of bones and shells fromthe strata
in question, which Mr. Busk and Mr. Gwyn Jeffreyswere good
enough to examine forme. He has now met with a fragmentof a
bone, probablybelongingeitherto the Dinotheriumor a Mastodon,
on the convex side of which is engraved a representationof a
horned quadruped, "with arched neck, lozelige-shaped chest, long
body, straightforelegs and broad feet." There are also, he says,
traces of seven or eight other figures,which,however,are nearly
obliterated. He informsme that in the same stratumhe has also
found a flintflake,afid several bodiesbroken as if for the extrac-
tion of marrow.