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ABSTRACT A MOST important contribution to our knowledge of the extent and affinities of that group of Eocene marine mammals known as Archæoceti has recently; been made by Prof. E. Fraas, of


Stuttgart, in an illustrated memoir entitled “Neue Zeuglodonten aus dem unteren Mitteleocän vom Mokattam bei Cairo,” published in Koken's _Geo-logische und Palaeontologische


Abhandlungen_. The Archæoceti, or zeuglodonts, which have hitherto been; definitely known only by various species of the typical genus Zeuglodon, have been regarded by many zoologists as the


direct ancestors of the modern whales and dolphins, and if this view be accepted, it has for some time been evident (although this was not the opinion of the late Sir William Flower) that


the toothed whales, at any rate, are probably the descendants of carnivorous mammals, as it seemed impossible that the zeuglodonts could be derived from a herbivorous type. Access through


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