70 Animals from Sumatra.— Dissect io7i of a Mummy. 



pointed to report upon them. — Dr. Duleau finished the read- 

 ino- of his memoir.— MM. Fourier, Rossel, and Fresnel 

 were appointed to assist at the examination at the Ecole des 

 Fonts et Chan$secs.—^l'y>l. Qiioy and Gaymard read a me- 

 moir, entitled, " Descriptions of five new genera of Moll usca, 

 and four new genera of Zoophytes, discovered in the expe- 

 dition commanded by M. Freycinet."— M. Duveau read a 

 memoir, entitled, " New researches on the natural history of 

 Aphides." — ^IM. Bouvard and Mathieu were appointed to 

 examine M. Cordier's moving globe. 



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X. Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



NEW ARRIVAL OF ANIMALS FROM SU3IATRA. 



jUR readers must be already acquainted with the loss sus- 

 tained by Sir T. Stamford Raffles, of the most valuable 

 collection of Natural History ever formed in the East, in con- 

 sequence of the destruction by fire of the ship Fame. They 

 have also heard, it is probable, of the valuable collection he 

 succeeded in forming and bringing safely home after that dis- 

 astrous event. We are now happy lo state that Sir Stamford 

 has just received from his correspondents at Bencoolen a con- 

 siderable addition to his collection, including the Ursiis ma- 

 layaniis, and the male and female Javanese Peacocks, all living; 

 which have been placed, for the present, in the menagerie at 

 the Tower. Also the skin and skeleton of a female Orang- 

 Outang, which animal has been recently discovered in Suma- 

 tra ; together with an extensive series of quadrupeds, birds, 

 reptiles, and insects. 



ACCOUNT OF THE MUMMY DISSECTED BY DR. GRANVILLE. 



The following is a correct abstract of Dr. Granville's " Mo- 

 no<rrapli on Egyptian Mummies, with Observations on the 

 Art of Embalming among the Ancient Egyptians," lately read 

 before the Royal Society. 



The principal object of this paper was to describe a munmiy 

 purchased at Gournou, in Upper Egypt, and presented to the 

 author by Sir A. Edmonstone, bart. It was in a single case, 

 of the usual form, and covered with cerecloth and bandages 

 very neatly and dexterously applied, exhibiting almost every 

 bandage and compress employed in modern surgery, and 

 among which both cotton and linen were recognised : — these, 

 to the amount of 28lbs. avoirdupois in weight, having been re- 

 moved, the body proved to be that of a female. The abdo- 

 minal integuments were remarkably wrinkled; and the whole 

 surface was of a dark-brown colour and dry, but in many 



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