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little creature was then shipped for Dublin ; but 

 unfortunately reached its destination in a dying 

 state, and only breathed for about five minutes 

 after reaching the Gardens. The body was care- 

 fully dissected : an account of its anatomy will be 

 found in the Proceedings of the Royal Irish 

 Academy for 1873-4. 



In consideration of the great rarity of Hippo- 

 potamus liberiensis, I have compiled a census of 

 museum specimens which may interest students. 

 The examples thus recorded are as follows : — 



1. Skull of young adult animal, with complete 

 dentition : nasal region and orbit injured by slugs. 

 Casts of this skull are now in the Royal College 

 of Surgeons' Museum and in the Natural History 

 Museum at South Kensington. 



2. Skull of aged animal, with obliterated sutures, 

 worn teeth, and lower jaw missing. This and the 

 preceding are the specimens originally described 

 by Dr. Morton, in 1849, and are now in the 

 Museum of the Royal Academy of Sciences, at 

 Philadelphia. 



3. Mounted skeleton, from example obtained on 

 the St. Paul's River, Liberia, described in 1852 by 

 Dr. Leidy, in the Proceedings of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and still pre- 

 served in the Museum of that Society. 



4. Skin sent over in pickle, and described in 

 1868 by M. Alphonse Milne Edwards. He figures 



