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which we hope to fill forty cases." In subsequent letters, 
our zealous collector speaks of spending the winter in exa- 
mining and describing what he and his assistants have found, 
. completing his journal and obtaining such information as 
shall guide his future movements. He earnestly desires that 
the Society should draw up and publish, at his own expense, 
a map of the places which he has visited, and for which he 
has sent some materials, and which are very little known; 
as the mountain-chains of Tarbagatay, and Mongrok, the 
stream and course of the waters of the Black Irtysch, and 
the road which leads from Russia to the farthest provinces of 
China. He entreats the Society to make arrangements for 
the conveyance of his collections ; a matter of great difficulty, 
. as the Post carries nothing, exceeding a pood in weight, and 
. there is little facility of communication from Kazan to 
. Moscow; and he finally begs to have a Daguerrotype sent 
out, the price of which he proposes should be paid out of 
his allowances. The Society hastened to grant the two latter 
. requests; but deferred, till it should be more closely exa- 
mined, the preparation of the map of M. Karéline’s course. 
Zoology occupies much of our Naturalist’s attention. The 
Sheep of the rocks (Ovis Ammon) and a new species of Cat, 
distinguished by its beautiful annulated tail, had respectively 
given much trouble, and foiled, for a long time, all his plans 
_ for capturing them. The sheep is gifted with a peculiarly 
. delicate sense of hearing, and whole flocks take to flight on 
_ the least noise. Still, M. Karéline has killed several, one 
. especially large male, weighing nearly eight poods. As to 
the cat, the subtle animal baffled all his snares. The Alpine 
Wolf (Lupus alpinus) and the wild Horse of the Kirghis 
Steppes (Equus Hermionus of Pallas), are great objects of 
. desire to M. Karéline ; though deep snows, violent hurricanes 
_ and avalanches, defeated the hope of much being done abroad 
in Zoology during a Siberian winter. “ In January, 1841, the 
Snow was so deep at Semipalatinsk that it rose above the roofs 
of the houses, and had to be cut away on either side of the 
Street, the ridge in the centre offering a deep descent on each 
