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and the huge head crowned with its strange appendage, recall 
exactly the male animal depicted in the plate of “A Sea Lion 
and Lioness from Juan Fernandez” in Anson’s ‘ Voyage,’ over 
which it has been the fashion to make merry for the best part of a 
century; and vindicate the accuracy of that intrepid seaman. The 
skeleton was in process of maceration, with the exception of the 
head: this measured rather less than two feet in length. The 
sutures are all open, and the teeth unworn. It was impossible to 
examine the other bones with any accuracy, but the epiphyses 
appeared to be united. 
Besides the skin and skeleton of the full-grown male, there are 
the following :— 
Young male, eight days old, skin stuffed, skeleton complete. 
a older, skin. without skeleton. 
Female, full-grown, skin stuffed, skeleton complete. 
- = skull and imperfect skeleton. 
Pa 3 three skins. 
The Expedition has also brought home a male and female Otaria 
of singular beauty, quite new to Science, for which Prof. Peters has 
proposed the name Arctophoca Gazella, from the name of the vessel 
on board of which the voyage was made. There are also a skin 
‘and skeleton of the leopard seal (Stenorhynchus leptonyx), and 
many skeletons of albatross, penguin, petrel, and sheathbill. Last, 
but not least, there is a skeleton of a Delphinus from the African 
coast, which will probably turn out to be either new or one of 
those that have hitherto been known from skulls alone brought 
home by sailors. 
While one cannot give too much praise to the skill and energy 
of the naturalist who has done so much in so short a time, and in 
so difficult a locality for work as the inhospitable shores of Ker- 
guelen’s Land, or to the University of Berlin for the instructions 
given before the Expedition started, it is not in human nature to 
forget that the Germans are not the only nation who sent an 
Expedition to that spot. Moreover, although these specimens 
could not be better placed than as part of the extensive collection 
now forming at Berlin, which, so long as Prof. Peters has charge 
of it, will be at all times accessible to visitors, yet Berlin is distant 
a journey of a day and a half from London, and in consequence 
the majority of Englishmen must remain as heretofore in ignorance 
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