Jávorka Sándor - Soós Lajos (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 29. (Budapest 1935)
Fejérváry, G. J.: Further contributions to a monograph of the Megalanidae and fossil Varanidae - with notes on recent Varanians
«oft parts could be examined. Thus, some paragraphs of the present paper may prove to be of interest not only to the „palaeontologist"\ but — precisely in consequence of a modern, i. e. biological, and not physiographical (more exactly geological), treatment of the subject — to the anatomist as well. Such are, in particular, the paragraphs dealing with the eidonomy and anatomy of the nario-loreal region, and with the lacrimal canaliculi, the naso-lacrimal duct and their osteological relations. Zoogeographical and paleogeographical problems turning up in the course of the present investigations have always duly been appreciated, what means that the writer did not omit giving them the full interest they actually deserve. From this point of view both the bio- and physiogeographer may find some notes entering the realm of their consideration which is always more or less intimately linked to facts emerging on the horizon opened by the phylogeneticist's work. On the whole, the present publication aims at being of some interest not only to the paleobiologist and zoologist or anatomist, but also to the modern Naturalist in general. It is upon the same fundaments of scientific outlook and treatment of the subject that the present Further Contributions rely, which obtain in the case of my 1918 Monograph. In fact, these Further Contributions may well be looked upon as constituting a sort of Complement, or Supplement, to I he Monograph of 1918, containing quite a series of important additions to, as well as modifications of, the previous text. Therefore I will have to refer the reader quite often to that work of mine. Considering the most gracious literal echo my first work met with — in the publications by Baron NOPCSA and Prof. BROILI in Europe, Messrs. GILMORE, CAMP, DUNN and BURDEN in the United States, and Mr. LONGMAN in Australia — I dare hope that the present paper will enjoy the same liberal admittance. I have to express, further, my most hearty thanks to Prof. VERSLUYS, Vienna, for his helpful advices and the use of his university notes on the subject he most kindly put at my disposal. Part I: Historical ProdromeIn this part I intend to give a short review of all the publications, appeared since 1918, which deal with fossil remains entering the systematical compass of the families A'aranidae and Megalanidae, as well as with those papers and books, respectively, that, in
