386 ■ Mr. A. R. Wallace's Account ofanjjifant Orang-Utan. 



the Southern hemisphere also. One species seems to be identical 

 with a tertiary fossil, Defrancia stellata of Goldfuss. The most 

 striking peculiarities in so small a collection are the occurrence 

 in it of no less than four new species of Eschar a, and of two new 

 (as recent) forms of Defrancia, both abundant generic forms in 

 the tertiary and cretaceous formations. 



Cellepora, O. Fabricius. Idmonea, Lamx. 



cers'icornis, Autor. atlantica, Forbes. 



EscHARA, Ray. Hornera, Lamx. 



teres, u. sp. frondiculata, Lamx. 



tridens, n. sp. Diastopora, M.-Edw. 



saccata, n. sp. obelia, Johnst. 



rosacea, n. sp. Tubulipora, Lamarck. 

 Retepora, Imperaio. hispida, Fleming. 



cellulosa. Lam. Defrancia, Bronn. 



beaniana, King. fungiformis, n. sp. 



stellata, Goldfuss. 



Frequently the dredge came up quite full of masses of one or 

 more of the above species. At Keilvig, in Finmark, a dredge 

 from 100 to 160 fathoms water was quite filled with Retejjora. 

 The Cellepora cervicornis frequently formed large patches in 

 50 fathoms water. The Idmonea atlantica was very common, 

 attached to a red weed found in the lower part of the Lami- 

 narian zone. We are indebted to Mr. Busk for the above list 

 and notes on the Polyzoa ; he has also kindly described and 

 figured the new species, which will be published in an early 

 Number of the ' Annals/ 



XXXIV. — Some Account of an lufant " Or any -Ut an." 

 By Alfred R. Wallace. 



This little animal was probably not more than a month old 

 when I obtained it by shooting its mother, with whom it fell to 

 the ground appaiently uninjured. I found out afterwards that 

 it had then broken a leg and an arm, which however mended so 

 rapidl)^, that I only noticed it a week or two afterwards by 

 observing the hard swellings on the limbs where the irregular 

 junction of the bone had taken place. When I first obtained it, 

 it was toothless, but a few^ days afterwards it cut its two lower 

 front teeth. I fed it with rice-water given out of a bottle with 

 a quill in the cork, which after one or two trials it sucked very 

 well. AVhen however a finger was placed in its mouth it w^ould 

 suck at it with remarkable vigour, drawing in its little cheeks 

 with all its might, thinking no doubt it had got hold of the 



