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animal, and who has even described and figured 

 it with sufficient exactness to prove that it was 

 not a mere Sepia or Cuttle, but that it was really 

 furnished with the palmated arms which operated 

 as sails, and occasionally as oars in swimming. 

 Rumphius's observations were however, in a great 

 degree, unknown to the generality of writers, by 

 being inserted in a work entitled Ephemerides 

 Naturae Curiosorum. 



In the British Museum is a specimen of this 

 dried and expanded upon paper, accompanied 

 by a model in wax, seated in the natural shell. 

 From an inspection of the dried specimen alone 

 all doubts must vanish as to the real existence 

 of the animal, and it was from this specimen, 

 assisted by the model, that the figure which I my- 

 self caused to be published of the Paper-Nautilus 

 in the act of sailing was executed. 



This figure of the animal seated in the shell is 

 the first that has been given since the days of 

 Rumphius. Being particularly solicitous on this 

 subject, I requested the late Professor Sibthorpe of 

 Oxford, to attend, during his travels, to the history 

 of this animal, and to endeavour by every possible 

 method to obtain a specimen, in order to remove 



