THE STRTJCTURE OF MACEAXJCHENIA. 319 



interests of science as regards Indian matters. If our Govern- 

 ment is utterly indifferent to such undertakings — and we believe 

 they refused even to subscribe for a single copy of the present work 

 — we have Associations amongst ourselves who vrill supply its short- 

 comings, and provide means for bringing the labours of our Natural- 

 ists before the world. In the name of Science we thank Dr. Giinther 

 for his work, and the Eay Society for publisliing it. 



XXVII. — The Strtjcture or MACRArcHENiA. 



(I.) Descripcioi^^ de la Macrauchenia Patachonica. Axales 

 DE MusEO Publico de Buenos Atres. Por German Burmeister, 

 Med. Dr., Phil. Dr., Director del Museo Publico de Buenos 

 Aires. Entrega prim., Buenos Aires. 1864^. 



(2.) Beschreibung der Macrauchenia Patachonica, Owen. 

 (Opisthorhinus Palconeri,Brav.) Nach A. Bravard's Zeichnungen 

 und den im Museo zu Buenos Aires vorhandenen Eesten 

 eutworfen von Dr. Hermaim Burmeister. Abhand. d. naturf. 

 Ges. zu HaUe. Bd. IX., p. 75. Halle. 1864. 



In our last number* we spoke of Dr. Burmeister's forthcoming 

 account of the Osteology of Ilacrauchenia, from the fossil remains 

 in the Museum of Buenos Ayres,t of which he is now Director. 

 Dr. Burmeister's essay on this subject has since appeared in two 

 publications, as will be seen by the title of them above given, and 

 fully equals in interest the expectations we had formed of it. 



The original discovery of the singular form of extinct Mammals 

 known as Macrauclienia is due to ]\ir. Darwin, Avho, during the 

 voyage of the Beagle, in 1842, found the first known specimens of 

 the remains of this animal at Port St, Julian, on the coast of Pata- 

 gonia. Upon these remains, which consisted mainly of vertebrse 

 and bones of the anterior extremities, Professor Owen, in the 



• Antea, p. 300. 



t It appears, however, that the skull of 3Iacrauc7iema^ certainly the most 

 Tahiable part of the skeleton, is not in the National Museum, but belongs to the 

 late M. Bravard's private collection, and is now for sale. Surely this is worth the 

 attention of the authorities of the Britisli Museum. 



