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XV. Additional evidence relative to the Dodo, By W. J. Broverip, Esqg., F.R.S., 
L.S., G.S., Vice-President of the Zoological Society of London. 
Read March 28, 1852. 
‘THE interest which attaches to any communication relative to an extinct, and, at one 
time, a doubted species, must be my apology for offering the following addition to the 
evidences of the existence and habits of the Dodo. 
My old and valued friend Professor Owen presented me, on his return from Holland 
some time since, with a short thick volume, bearing on its title-page (not without black 
letter) the following promise :— 
“C. Plinii Secundi Des wijdt-vermaerden Natuurkondigers vijf Boecken. 
Handelen van de Nature. 
I. Van de Menschen. 
II. Van de viervoetige en Kruypende Dieren. 
II. Van de Vogelen. 
IV. Van de Kleyne Beestjes of Ongedierten. 
V. Van de Visschen, Oesters, Kreeften, &c. 
‘“‘Hier zijn by-gevoeght de Schriften van verscheyden andere oude Authueren de 
Natuur der Dieren aengaende. En nu in desen laetsen Druck wel het vierde part 
vermeerdert, uyt verscheyden nieuwe Schrijvers en eygen oudervindinge: en met veel 
Kopere Platen verziert t’Amsterdam, By Apranam Wotreaneu, 1662.” 
The frontispiece presents the artist’s notion of the Garden of Eden, with a very Dutch 
Adam and Eve, the latter with the apple in her hand, while the serpent twined round 
the tree looks sly and satisfied. Our first parents are surrounded by beasts, and in 
the foreground is represented a piece of water with waterfowl and ‘‘ill-shaped fishes.” 
The superscription is ‘“C. Plinius S. van de Menschen, Beesten, Vogelen en 
Visschen.”’ 
Mr. Strickland, in his elaborate work on ‘The Dodo and its Kindred’,’ in which 
he has done me the honour to adopt the arrangement and the information collected 
in my article ‘‘ Dodo,” in the ‘ Penny Cyclopzdia’,’ gives some addenda in his post- 
script to Part I. of his and Dr. Melville’s book. ‘‘The first of these,” writes Mr. 
Strickland, ‘‘is a rare edition of Bontekoe’s Voyage, kindly communicated to me by 
Dr. Bandinel, the Bodleian Librarian, entitled ‘Journael van de acht-jarige avon- 
1 London, 4to. Reeve and Co., 1848. 2 Vol. ix. p. 47 (1837). 
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