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e¢ Royal Museum at Berlin, Prussia, has recently obtained ‘ne gi 
elie the head, which he now has mounted a 
stands, it is 90 feet | long. The bones of the se one were not tall 
of one individual. ‘The new one is said to be far more perfect and all 
the same animal. 
10. The U. S. Naval Astronomical Eee ee. to the Southern Hem- 
isphere, during the septs 1849-52, Lieut. J. M. Gilliss, Superintendent, 
with Lieut. A. Mac Rae, Acting Master S. L. Phel elps, and Captain’s 
clerk E. R. Smith, Assistants. ia 78 1.—Chile, lis Geography, Cli- 
mate, Earthquakes, Government, Social Condition, Mineral and Agri- 
culiural Resources, Commerce, Be, ; by Lieut. J. M. Gituiss, A. M., 
r. Phil. Soc., etc, fligstwied by maps and plates, 
rapher, ar 
birecttverncd instructive 
Volume II, consists of a a series of ee connected with the re- 
sults of the Expedition, as follows: 
1. The Andes and Pampas, an account of two journeys by different 
across the Andes,—the Uspullata and Portillo passes—by Lieut. 
BALD Mac RaE—67 pp. 
inerals and mineral waters of Chile, by J. Lawrence Smith. 
description of the Indian pnlanie brought from Chile and 
ith numerous illustrations, by THo 
ammals, (with a fine plate of the " Chbige phorus truncatus,) YY, 
Beeb 
8, (with colored plates of Falco nigriceps, Psaracolius cure 
aa thilius, Sturnella militaris, Chrysomitris marginalis, Calli 
cyanicollis, C. larva ides, C. Desmarestii, Euphoni 
nis ‘ 
6, 7, 8. Reptiles and ep (with aie? s of many s 
riptions of two species of Crustacea, Rhync 
. 
ion ‘of the eer jawanda’ 
c A, tooth and Aa ot. the i 
; some rem 
