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2. Illuetrations of the Zoology of South Africa, S;c. S^c. By Andrew 

 Smith, M. D., Surgeon to the Forces, and Director of the Expedition 

 into the Interior of Africa. In 4to Parts. To be published periodi- 

 cally by Smith, Elder & Co., London. 



This is another of those important and elegant original works 

 on natural history at present in tlie course of publication. Dr 

 Smith, the chief author and conductor of the Illustrations, is a na- 

 turalist of established reputation, and a traveller distinguished for 

 zeal, activity, and judgment. Being stationed at the Cape of Good 

 Hope as a medical officer in the military service, Dr Smith had 

 ample opportunities of indulging his taste for natural history. 

 Fortunately for science, he was selected by the Cape of Good 

 Hope Association Jbr exploring Central Africa^ as chief of an 

 expedition sent out by that Society, for the purpose of extend- 

 ing our knowledge of Southern Africa to the north of the Cape 

 district. I'he expedition, consisting of thirty-four persons, 

 after an absence of nineteen months, and penetrating as far as 

 23'' 28' south latitude, returned to Cape Town, with an ex- 

 tensive and valuable collection of objects of natural history. 

 Descriptions and figures of the new and more interesting spe- 

 cies of animals are to be laid before the public in the '' Illus- 

 trations of the Zoology of Southern Africa.'* 



The work will consist of pictorial illustrations of between two 

 and three hundred subjects of the animal kingdom, all of which 

 have been collected to the south of 23° 38' of south latitude, 

 and will comprise, first, and principally, unknown animals ; 

 secondly, animals known, but not yet figured ; and, lastly, such 

 as have been imperfectly figured, but of which Dr Smith is in 

 possession of accurate drawings. The entomological part of 

 the work will be written by W. S. Macleay, Esq. ; the rest of 

 the descriptions by Dr Smith, who will add a summary of Afri- 

 can zoology, and an inquiry into the geographical range of the 

 species in that quarter of the globe. 



Part 1st contains ten beautifully drawn and coloured plates, 

 and descriptions of the following animals : 



PI. 1. Rhinoceros Keitoloa. — This colossal animal, although 

 nearly allied to the Rh. bicornis, is evidently a distinct species. 



PI. 2. Rhinoceros Bicornis, Linn, — On this species DrSmith has 

 the following interesting remarks. " The present species, under 

 the name Rhinoster^ has been familiarly known to the colonists 

 of the Cape of Good Hope ever since 1652. In that year, when 



