THE COMMON FUR-SEAL OF COMMERCE. 



PLATE XXV. 



O. Falklandica, Desm. No. 387. Less. Diet. Class. Ph. 

 Falklandica, Pen. p. 275, Shaw. Fur- Seal of Commerce. 



SUQH of our readers as may be interested in this 

 truly valuable Seal, in a commercial and economic 

 point of view, we beg will turn to the observations 

 which will be found in the introductory portion of 

 this volume ; * and such as desiderate more scien- 

 tific details, we take the liberty of referring to a 

 paper entitled " Observations on the Fur- Seal," 

 which will be found in the Second Volume of 

 the Annals of Natural History. In this paper, 

 an attempt is made to prove that the Falklan- 

 dica, introduced to the notice of Naturalists some 

 sixty years ago by the illustrious Pennant, in 

 his description of a specimen which had recently 

 been presented to the Museum of the Royal Society, 

 and also that the Long-Necked Seal, (the Lon- 



* See p. 92 



