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whole of the internal parts of generation, the urinary 

 bladder, part of the rectum, and also the whole of the 

 cloaca unexamined, and put them into spirits. This 

 preparation is now in the possession of Mr. Scott, who 

 is to take it with him to England, and who will, I am 

 sure, feel much pleasure in showing it to you*. In 

 this preparation the urinary bladder must not be mis- 

 taken for an uterus. 



" Cookoooons; a native, chief of the Boorah-Boorah 



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tribe, says, that it is a fact well known to them, that, 

 this animal lays two eggs, about the size, shape, and 

 colour of those of a hen ; that the female sits a consi- 

 derable time on her eggs in a nest which is always 

 found among; the reeds on the surface of the water ; 

 that the animal can run on the grass, and is sometimes 

 found at a considerable distance from the water ; that 

 he is also perfectly aware that a wound from the 

 spur of the male is followed by swelling and great 

 pain; but although he has seen many cases of it, he 

 has never known it fatal ; that the flesh of the ani- 

 mal is never eaten, and that the native name is Mullin- 

 gong: 



April 16, The Secretary exhibited two living individuals of the 

 1822. Lemur albifrons of Geoffroy St. Hilaire, from Mada- 

 gascar, male and female. — It appears that M. Geoffroy 

 had seen only the male of this species ; and M. Des- 

 marest, in Deterville's Dictio?inaired'HistoireNaturelle, 

 considers the Lemur aujuanensis of Geoffroy, which has 

 no white about the face, as the female of Lemur albi- 



* Mr. Scott, on his arrival in England, presented the preparation to the University 

 of Oxford. 



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