THE COLLECTIONS OF THE FOYAEA EXPEDITION. 9 



of a moderately intelligent and affectionate dog with a human infant 

 before it has acquired speech, must abimdantly convince any unpre- 

 judiced person, that the same moral and intellectual facvdties are 

 working in both ; that in whatever sense the child can be said to 

 possess reason, or to be capable of right and wrong, his four-footed 

 playmate has a claim to a humbler share of the same distinctions. 

 However, on this point, the words of a writer, with whom we have 

 not always the good fortune to find oiu-selves iii such entire agree- 

 ment, so amply express our convictions, and, if true, are so entirely 

 subversive of the proposition to establish a " Eegne humaia," that 

 we may fitly conclude this article with them : — 



" Not being able to appreciate, or conceive of, the distinction between the 

 psychical phenomena of a Chimpanzee and of a Boschisman, or of an Aztec, with 

 arrested brain growth, as being of a natitre so essential as to preclude a comparison 

 between them, or as being other than a differerice of degree, I cannot shut my eyes 

 to tlie significance of that all-pervading similitude of sti-ucture — every tooth, every 

 bone strictly homologous — which makes the determination of the dilference between 

 Homo and Pithecus the anatomist's difficulty." * 



II. — The Collections of the Noyaba Expedition. 



Die Aitsbeute deb OESTEEEEicniscnEN Nattjbfobscheb an 

 Saugetiiieben und Eeptilien wahbend DEB Weltumsegelung 

 Sb Majestat Feegatte Noyaea. Von Dr. L. J. Fitziiiger. 



This paper, which has been recently read by Dr. Pitzinger, before 

 the Academy of Sciences at Vienna, and is printed in their " Sitz- 

 ungsberichte," (Vol. XLII.) gives a resume of the collections made 

 by the two Zoologists (Messrs. Zelebor and v. Prauenfield) attached 

 to the Novara expedition, in the classes of Mammals and Eeptiles. 

 The determuiation of the species in these sections of the Vertebrates, 

 has been assigned to Dr. Pitzinger and Herr Zelebor ; the iuvestiga- 

 tion of the Tishes is stated to have been entrusted to Professor KJner ; 

 and Herr von Pelzehi, we believe, has been for some time past en- 

 gaged in working out the series of Birds. 



Of Mammals 440 individual specimens were collected during the 

 expedition, belonging to 176 different species, of which a Hst, con- 

 taining the names mthout descriptions and localities, is appended. 

 Among these are 11 considered to be hitherto undescribed, namely, 

 seven Bats, three Eodents and one Armadillo, Of these 11 species, 

 no less than sixf are from the Nicobar Islands — one of the most 

 novel and interesting localities visited by the expedition. Oiu' previous 



* Professor Owen " On the Characters, &c. of the class Mammalia," Journal of 

 the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, vol. ii. No. 5, 1857, p. 20, Note. 



I Pferopus nicobartcus ; Pachi/soma giganteum; Pachysoma scherzeri ; YespC' 

 rugo nicobarictis ; Mus novarcs ; Mus palmarum. 



