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corner in the midst of hides, stinking Tollo dogs, &c., where we 

 spread our bedding for the night's rest : sleep we guarded against, 

 as our company did not seem any of the safest. No sooner indeed 

 was the light put out, than we heard one of them examining our lug- 

 gage ; hut when we made a noise to indicate that we were not asleep, 

 he desisted. 



Next evening we arrived again at the Estancea of Mr. Methuen, 

 where we rested for a day ; then, with my peon and three horses, 

 I set out for Buenos Ayres, where we arrived after a five days' dull 

 ride, and nearly a month's journey in search of that which was not 

 to be found. 



We have been favoured by Mr. Bell with the sight of a letter just 

 received by him from Mr. Cuming at Manilla, and which brings down 

 our intelligence of him to so late a date as Nov. 1, 1837, after ha- 

 ving been absent ten months among the southern islands of the Phi- 

 lippines, where he has made a very large collection of Crustacea, 

 which he has forwarded to the Zoological Society and to Mr. Bell ; 

 also five cases of animals for Mr. Owen, including a great number of 

 fish, snakes, lizards, frogs, dragons, and bats. He states also that 

 he has collected 1S09 species of shells, amongst which are 300 from 

 the woods, many of them magnificent. It was his intention to leave 

 Manilla in a month for the southern provinces of Luzon and the ad- 

 jacent islands, for a period of at least nine months. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



Molluscous Animals, including Shell-fish ; containing an Exposition of 

 their Structure, Systematical Arrangement, Physical Distribution, 

 and Dietetical Uses, with a Reference to the Extinct Races. Form- 

 ing the article " Mollusca," in the 7th edition of the Encyclopedia 

 Britannica. By John Fleming, D.D., F.R.S.E., &c. Edin. 1837. 

 12mo. 



During our cursory perusal of this volume we had forcibly brought 

 to recollection some lines of Chaucer, which the lapse of three cen- 

 turies or so has not rendered the less unfitting. 

 " For out of the old feldis, as men saieth, 

 Comith all this newe corne fro yere to yere, 

 And out of olde bokis, in gode faieth, 

 Comith all this newe science that men lere." 



And yet the lines are not very applicable to the purpose either, for 



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