MEMOIR OP CAMPER. I ) 



Hunters, Magellan, De Luc, &c. Next year he 

 transmitted to the Royal Society a memoir upon 

 the fossil bones of unknown fishes which are found 

 on Mount St Pierre, at Maestricht, a valuable pro- 

 duction, from which we might easily quote many 

 interesting passages, but to which we shall only re- 

 fer, as in the Philosophical Transactions for 1786. 

 He this year also published a short description of 

 the Dugon the Halicore of Cuvier, belonging to 

 the order Cetacea, and of the Siren lacertina of 

 Linnaeus. Of the former, he says, this very rare 

 animal deserves to be better known, more espe- 

 cially as the great naturalists of the age, Artedi, 

 Klein, Linnaeus, Buffon, Pennant and Brisson, have 

 only thrown us into confusion about it. At the close 

 of these interesting papers, he remarks, " I am de- 

 lighted with this opportunity of describing to my 

 fellow countrymen two fishes which had not pre- 

 viously been accurately described by any naturalist." 

 About this time, also, he sent to the Natural History 

 Society of Berlin two memoirs, one On the Classifi- 

 cation of Fishes according to the System of Linnaeus , 

 and another On the Unicorn, which was published in 

 its transactions. Finally, during the concluding 

 years of his life, he transmitted to the Petersburgh 

 Academy, papers on the following subjects: On 

 the Fossil Bones of unknown and rare Animals ; 

 On the Head of the Bison ; On the Gigantic Head 

 of a Buffalo ; On the enormous Teeth of an Ele- 



