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28th, 1838, under the name here given: afterwards by Mr. Gray- 

 under the name of H. Tasmanei (vide Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. i. p. 108. 

 for April 1st, 1838). Mr. Gray's description of this animal is 

 manifestly independent of mine, since his paper, though only pub- 

 lished on the 1st of April, is dated February 10. My own know- 

 ledge, both of this species and M.fruticus, dates from November 

 last, when I had an opportunity of becoming acquainted with them 

 through the kindness of Mr. Gould : the question between us, there- 

 fore, on this point is merely one of precedence.* 



XXIV. — Information respecting Botanical Travellers. 



The following interesting communication has been received from 

 George Bentham, Esq., Secretary to the Horticultural Society, &c. 



M. Theodor Kotschy, a botanical collector from Vienna, joined as 

 botanist an expedition of Austrian geologists sent to search for use- 

 ful fossils in the domain of the Viceroy of Egypt. With this expe- 

 dition he touched at Greece in the year 1836, from thence went to 

 Cairo, and after a very short stay in Syria, he spent two of the most 

 favourable summer months of that year in the little-known chain of 

 the Taurus. From this country he transmitted to Vienna a consi- 

 derable collection of dried plants, containing many species entirely 

 new, and many others only known by the collections of Tournefort 

 and other older botanists, and only now to be found in a very few 

 herbaria. 



From Syria M. Kotschy proceeded in 1837 to Nubia and Abyssi- 

 nia, and at the time the last news were received from him at Vienna, 

 he was in the most southern parts of Cordofan and Darfour, between 

 10° and 11° N. lat., and was expecting, after the rainy season, to 

 penetrate still further south. He represents the vegetation of these 

 countries as in the highest degree remarkable and imposing. The 

 expedition had already met with several troops of elephants and of 

 giraffes, and Mr. Kotschy also mentions some stems of Adansonia of 

 an enormous size. It is probable he may be mistaken as to the iden- 



* Having intimated to Mr. Gray the subject of Mr. Ogilby's communica- 

 tion, we have received from him the following note, which he had intended 

 to send us last month, but had mislaid. — Edit. 



Antilope Zebra. I find that Mr. Ogilby, in a notice of some other Ante- 

 lopes, in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 1836, p. 121, had pre- 

 viously given the name of Antilope Doria to the skins of this animal noticed 

 by Mr. Bennett ; but as he gives no additional particulars, and as the name 

 is only incidentally mentioned, and does not even occur in the index of the 

 volume, I had overlooked it. — J. E. Gray. 



