THE ANNALS 

 MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[THIRD SERIES.] 

 No. 80. AUGUST 1864. 



IX. — Observations on the various Species of Glyptodon in the 

 Public Museum of Buenos Ayres. By Hermann Burueister, 

 M.l)., Ph.D. &c.* 



The doil of the province of Buenos Ayres is one of the richest 

 deposit.<i of fo!isil bones on the surface of the globe. Considering 

 that the existing specimens, of intrinsic and of scientific value, had 

 almost all been transferred to European museums, and that it 

 would be an easy task to found a more precious collection in 

 Buenus AyreS; if the national administration should interest 

 itself in the preservation of the natural treasures, I accepted 

 the invitation which, through the medium of the Prussian Mi- 

 nister, Herr von Gulich, the Supreme Government sent to me 

 during the time of the administration of Senor Sarmiento. 

 As Director of the Public Museum, I resolved to devote myself 

 exclusively in future to the study of the natural productions of 

 Buenos Ayres and of the other Argentine provinces. During the 

 two years that I have been occupied in this new employment, 

 the ^luseum of Buenos Ay res has completely changed its con- 

 tents : I have arranged them in the European manner, as the 

 collections exist in that part of the world ; and I have, up to 

 this time, introduced so many new specimens of fossil bones, 

 that, without exaggeration, it may be said that no European 

 museum is more rich in these than that of Buenos Ayres. To 

 prove the correctness of this statement, I shall publish, from 

 time to time, notices and scientific descriptions of the principal 

 specimens, commencing with our skeleton of Glyptodon, which, 



• Translated from the ' Revista Farmaceutica de la Sociedad de Farmacia 

 nacional arjentina,' 1S6.'M;4, by C. Carter Blake, F.G.S.. F.A.S.L. [The 

 translator ha^ had the advantage of a copy in which Dr. Burmeitter has 

 introduced many manuscript corrections into the original Spanish printed 

 text, and of illustrative photographs and pencil drawings of the specimens.] 



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