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have been selected, chiefly as surgeons of the vessels employed, and 
encouragement has been afforded to them, not merely while engaged in 
the voyage, but also after their return to their native land, where their 
first care has been to publish, under the auspices of the government, the 
zoological results of the expedition. Of those obtained from the voyage 
of M. Freycinet we have lately had occasion to speak : and we have now 
before us an equally splendid work with the one edited on that occasion 
by MM. Quoy and Gaimard. The present is devoted to the zoological 
results of the voyage round the world performed between the years 1822 
and 1825, by the ship La Coquille, under the command of M. Duper- 
rey. For the collection of these we are indebted to MM. Lesson and 
Garnot, the surgeons to the expedition, and itis under their superin- 
tendence, and especially, we believe, under that of the former, that they 
are now in course of publication. A somewhat full analysis may be 
allowed of such a work, which, owing to its extent and the ccnsequent 
expense of its acquisition, will be confined to a very few libraries. 
Passing over entirely the first chapter, which is devoted to general re- 
marks on the Islands of the South Seas, and on the varieties of the human 
race which inhabit them, (although many curious particulars and much 
interesting information are contained in it,) we arrive at the general re- 
marks on some Mammalia. These occupy the second chapter, and are 
far from numerous. They are arranged in the order of the places at 
which the expedition made its short and hurried rests. In the forests of 
Brasil neither Agoutis nor Armadilloes were met with, although these 
animals were said by the inhabitants to be abundant; but the Cebus Ca- 
pucinus was seen in great numbers. The Falkland Islands, affording 
from the absence of wood but little shelter to terrestrial animals, offer 
few except the domestic races imported thither by Europeans, which 
have become naturalized and wild. The horses and pigs are plentiful, 
and rabbits are abundant; but the oxen are few in number, suffering 
continually from the chase of the sailors of the vessels engaged in the 
South Sea fishery. The Canis antarcticus was seen only once. On the 
western coast of South America few Mammalia were seen excepting 
Cetacea and Seals. In Chili the red Coati, some Armadilloes, anda Cat, 
probably the Jaguarondi, were the only quadrupeds observed, with the 
exception of the Dog, which is noticed as appearing to form a distinct 
