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have been selected, chiefly as surgeons of the vessels employed, and 

 encouragement has been aiForded to them, not merely while engaged in 

 the voyage, but also after their return to their native land, where their 

 first care has been to publish, under the auspices of the government, the 

 zoological results of the expedition. Of those obtained from the voyage 

 of M. Freycinet we have lately had occasion to speak : and we have now 

 before us an equally splendid work with the one edited on that occasion 

 by MM. Quoy and Gaimard. The present is devoted to the zoological 

 results of the voyage round the world performed between the years 1822 

 and 1825, by the ship La Coquille, under the command of M. Duper- 

 rey. For the collection of these we are indebted to MM. Lesson and 

 Gamot, the surgeons to the expedition, and it is under their superin- 

 tendence, and especially, we believe, under that of the former, that they 

 are now in course of publication. A somewhat full analysis may be 

 allowed of such a work, which, owing to its extent and the consequent 

 expense of its acquisition, will be confined to a very few libraries. 



Passing over entirely the first chapter, which is devoted to general re- 

 marks on the Islands of the South Seas, and on the varieties of the human 

 race which inhabit them, (although many curious particulars and much 

 i nteresting information are contained in it,) we arrive at the general re- 

 marks on some Mammalia. These occupy the second chapter, and are 

 far from numerous. They are arranged in the order of the places at 

 which the expedition made its short and hurried rests. In the forests of 

 Brasil neither Agoutis nor Armadilloes were met with, although these 

 animals were said by the inhabitants to be abundant ; but the Cebus Ca- 

 .pueinus was seen in great numbers. The Falkland Islands, affording 

 from the absence of wood but little shelter to terrestrial animals, offer 

 few except the domestic races imported thither by Europeans, which 

 have become naturalized and wild. The horses and pigs are plentiful, 

 aiid rabbits are abundant ; but the oxen are few in number, suffering 

 continually from the chase of the sailors of the vessels engaged in the 

 South Sea fishery. The Cants antarcticus was seen only once. On the 

 western coast of South America few Mammalia were seen excepting 

 Cetacea and Seals. In Chili the red Coati, some Armadilloes, and a Cat, 

 probably the Jaguarondi, were the only quadrupeds observed, with the 

 exception of the Dog, which is noticed as appearing to form a distinct' 



