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tures, and to their classifications, and by no 
means to animal physiology, in which branch 
of the science Sir Everard Home and others 
have made brilliant progress. While making 
concessions, too, let me not forget to* pay my 
humble meed of tribute to the labours of my 
friend, Joshua Brookes, who did so much, 
so long ago, for advancing the sciences of 
anatomy and physiology in general; and, 
among the rest, for Zoological anatomy and 
physiology !” 
The party here proclaimed their thanks 
for the obliging task which the well-informed 
and hearty Admiral had taken upon himself, 
after which the latter proceeded to commence 
his observations. 
‘“< There are three, and only three, descrip- 
tions of animals, in South America,” said he, 
‘* which the Spanish settlers have brought 
to our knowledge, under the name of 
‘Peruvian Sheep;’ and which Zoologists 
have long since resolved into three descrip- 
tions of Camel.* Amid the confusion of the 
* Critical accounts of the South American Camels, 
by the Editor of these pages, appeared, with coloured 
figures, in the CoLoNiAL Journat for 1817 and 1818. 
