TAPIRUS MALAYANUS. 



complete skeleton, and the thoracic and abdominal viscera preserved in spirits of 

 wine ; and in giving this concise narrative, I am happy to state that Sir Everard 

 Home has been enabled by these materials to illustrate the resemblance between 

 the Sumatran and American species, in a manner highly instructive and interesting 

 both to the Zoologist and the comparative Anatomist, in a paper read before the 

 Royal Society, in the month of April of the present year, and which will appear in 

 the volume of the Society's Transactions now in the press. 



The specimen deposited in the Museum of the Honourable East India Com- 

 pany, agrees in length and circumference of the body with the female, of which the 

 dimensions are given by Sir Stamford Raffles ; it measures a few inches less in height 

 at the shoulder and at the haunch. It is in a perfect state of preservation. In the 

 Plate which illustrates this article, it is very faithfully represented by the pencil of 

 Mr. William DanieU; and a desire to communicate to the Public, without delay, an 

 accurate figure of this interesting animal, will, I hope, be accepted as an apology 

 for introducing it into the first number of this Work. 



