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the absence of information coming to us with double authen- 
ticity as well as interest from the original observer, it generally 
falls to the lot of some home compiler to ap} propriate to him- 
self, by the mere imposition of a name, the credit which is 
solely due to the labours and enterprise of the traveller. 
This imputation of neglecting the objects which he observed 
does not attach to our scieritific countr yman, Dr. Richardson. 
His portion of the work entitled Zaina Boredli- Americana, 
has been among the most prominent productions of the past 
year; and will remain a standard volume to be referred to, 
not only as a source of original information, but as a faithful 
repository of all that had been previously known respecting 
the Mammalia of North America. In addition to the several 
novelties which he had some time before described in the 
<oological Journal, and which have been already noticed by 
my immediate predecessor, he has given us in his late valu- 
able publication the following new animals : —A’r ctomys Dou- 
elas77 and A. Beechéy?, Geomy s Douglasz7, G. umbrinus, and 
Dipléstoma bolbivorum. 
Mr. Geo. 'Tradescant Lay, who accompanied Capt. Beechey 
in his late expedition in the Blossom, has afforded us an in- 
teresting account of the habits and economy of the Ptéropus 
psélaphon, a new species of the group, w hich he observed in 
the Island of Bonin. We trust that the reputation he has 
attamed by this his first essay in zoology will encourage him 
to pursue a study in which he appears by his name to have an 
hereditary interest. 
We owe to the industry and acumen of Mr. Ogilby, the 
knowledge of a new species of the very limited group of Pa- 
radoxurus, his Par. leicopus. We have also some remarks of 
his on the Linnean genus £quus, which will shortly appear 
in our Zoological Journal. ‘This gentleman is one of the late 
recruits to our science, and has” already given us sufficient 
earnest that he will not long remain in the subordinate 
ranks. 
Mr. Woods, an active and well known member of the Lin- 
nean and Zoological Societies, has increased the catalogue of 
the interesting eroup of the Antelopes by the account OP: a new 
species, the Ant. personata. A more detailed description than 
that already published of the animal, together with a plate, 
have been prepared, and will shortly appear in the forthcoming 
number of the Zoological Journal. ‘From this gentleman, also, 
who has honoured our London societies by transferring to 
them the talents which he exerted with great credit to ie 
self in the support of a provincial institution, we may expect 
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