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their great length we must regret that we are unable to introduce 

 them into the Annals, and can only refer our readers to them as most 

 valuable sources of information. Among the contributors to the 

 Archiv will be found the names of Link, Kunth, Dr. Schleiden, Dr. 

 Philippi, Prof. Muller, Ehrenberg, Anton, Nitzsch, Wagner, Klug, 

 Burmeister, Dr. Fritsche of St. Petersburg, Schlegel, Nathusius, 

 and various other celebrated naturalists of Germany. Six parts ap- 

 pear yearly, and as nearly as possible every two months ; sometimes, 

 however, two parts appear together. Part I. of the fourth year (1838) 

 contains the following original articles : — On the Manati of Orinoko 

 from the manuscript of A. v. Humboldt, with an appendix by Prof. 

 Wiegmann. — On the European Soricida, by H. Nathusius. — Use of 

 the Nuthatch (Sitta Europcea) in destroying weevils. — Botanical No- 

 tices, by Dr. Schleiden. — On two new genera of Coleoptera from 

 Madagascar, by Prof. Klug. — On the genera of the Plagiostomi, by 

 Muller and Henle ; with translations of Agassiz's Memoir on the 

 family of the Carps, and J. E. Gray's on the Mactradce. We hope to 

 be able to give some extracts from the above in our next number. 



PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



October 10th, 1837, R. Owen, Esq., in the Chair. — A paper was 

 read by Colonel Sykes "On the identity of the "Wild Ass of Cutch 

 and the Indus, with the Dzeggetai (Equus Hemionus of Pallas)." 



The author commences with observing, "it is somewhat strange 

 and anomalous, that an animal known to and named by Aristotle, and 

 noticed by iElian, Pliny, and subsequent authors, down to our own 

 day, an animal remarkable for its beauty of colour, the antelope 

 lightness of its limbs, and the tales of its swiftness, and its classic 

 locality, should have attracted so little the attention of men of 

 science, that it was not even figured until Pallas put it before the 

 public * . The magnificent work of Buffon does not boast a representa- 

 tion of it ; and as the proceedings of the scientific body at Peters- 

 burg are necessarily rare, and confined to some few great public 

 libraries, it was in fact scarcely known to the European world, even 

 though Pennant copied Pallas's account in 1793. To remedy this 

 defect we are indebted to M. Isidore Geoffroy Saint Hilaire, who 

 took advantage of the importation by M. Dussumier, of a female 

 into the Paris Menagerie, to have a correct coloured figure made to 

 accompany his paper, ' Sur le Genre Cheval/ in the Nouvelles An- 



* In the Novi Commentarii Academice Scientiarum Petropolitance, t. xix. 

 1774, p. 417. 



