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ately after crossing that river." Such, Mr. Ogilby remarked, was 

 all the information he possessed at present with regard to this sin- 

 gular animal ; but Mr. Gould had promised to examine the original 

 specimen on his arrival at Sydney, in the Museum of which town it 

 had been deposited ; and Mr. Ogilby therefore hoped that, through 

 the kindness of that gentleman, he should shortly have it in his 

 power to communicate a more detailed description of its form and 

 characters to the Society. 



Mr. Waterhouse afterwards called the attention of the Meeting 

 to some valuable skins of Mammalia, brought from Africa by Capt. 

 Alexander, recently purchased for the Society's Museum. 



