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Bruta. 



1. Dasjpiis villosus. 3. Bradypus didactylus. 



2. sexcinctus. 



7- The MuTiLATA, which include the Whales, 

 Dolphins, and Dugongs, whose immense size and ma- 

 rine habits have hitherto exceeded any means of conserva- 

 tion which the zoological establishments of Europe afford, 

 compose the only great division of Mammalia which is 

 altogether absent from the collection. The difficulties 

 which nature has interposed sufficiently account for the 

 vacuum which, up to the present time, has thus unavoid- 

 ably occurred in the series. 



8. The extant Proboscidea are limited to three species 

 of Elephants, o{ which Elephas indicus has never been absent 

 from the collection. The young female which now repre- 

 sents this Order came into the possession of the Society in 

 1851, at the age of six months, and was the first instance 

 of a calf of so tender an age having survived the voyage 

 from India. The process of lactation was continued for 

 many months ; and, although not actually born in the 

 establishment, the exhibition of this specimen afforded 

 every means of studying the habits of Elephantine infancy 

 in the most satisfactory and interesting manner. 



9. In the Perissodactyles, both the multungular and 

 solidungular divisions are copiously illustrated. 



The Indian Rhinoceros, and the beautiful Tapirs pre- 

 sented by His Majesty the King of Portugal, are types 

 of the multungular; and the solidungular include the 

 Zebra, the Quagga, the Hemione, the Hemippe, and 

 the GouR. The Hemippe is the first example of the wild 

 ass of Assyria which has reached this country. The So- 

 ciety are indebted for this interesting animal to the hbe- 

 rality of the late Mr. Burckhardt Barker. It has only of 

 late years been discriminated as a species by M. Isidore 

 Geoffroy St.-Hilaire from specimens living in the Jardin 

 des Plantes at Paris, and is on that account of peculiar 

 interest to scientific zoologists. Being thus rich in the 

 animals of this genus, the accession of another member of 

 it, if indeed distinct, from the interior of Persia, whence 

 the museums of Europe have never yet received specimens, 

 ought not to be passed over in this Report. 



The Hon. C. A. Murray, who has, from the time he long 



