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Soiff/icrn Cross. 



Cuvier is not preoccui.ied l»y Stcnorhyncliua of Lamarck, and the 

 • nam.' of this animal will, no doubt, some day stand as 

 .-„>.■■,/, inrJniji Irptonjix, V. Cuvier ! 



//w/fw//.— The two earliest descriptions of the Leopard Seal 

 —the ..no by do Hlainville, the other by Desmarest— appeared in the 

 voar IS'JO Till' latter was a meagre extract from the MS. notes of 

 the fonner naturalist, whose own description, published under the 

 WMwv of " r. a iH^tits ongles. Thoca leptonyx," was based on two 



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Si-'-i/t 



I.KOrAltn SKAL RASKING IN THE SUN. 

 {Ily iier mission oj Sir George Newnes, Bart.') 



sjifcimens, the one a skull in the museum of the Royal College of 

 Sui^'tHtus, the other a skin and skull from the Falklands, then in the 

 colK-i-lictn of Mtmsieur Ilauville at Havre. According to Gray, the 

 f"' Kiill wjus that ligured by Sir E. Home in the 'Philosophical 



T •■ ' 1H22, which specimen the latter writer states to have 



I" .. , . ..U'd to the Jloyal College of Surgeons " by Mr. Chevalier: 

 ihi.H j.rovfs to have lieen brought by Mr. Kearn, in a whaler, from 

 New C;corgia, near the ice towards the South Pole." G. Cuvier^ 

 that M. llaiiville's specimen found its way to the Paris 



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-tcl:itf«l by n,/<lruy;/a, Gistel, Nat. Thierw., p. xi., 1848, 

 "T (■..• T,f<»|i:inl-Si':il slunild probably be Ilydrurgn leptonyx. 



pt. I., p. 'JOT, 1825. 



