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the absence of information coming to us with double authen- 

 ticity as well as interest from the original observer, it generally 

 falls to the lot of some home compiler to appropriate to him- 

 self, by the mere imposition of a name, the credit which is 

 solely due to the labours and enterprise of the traveller. 



This imputation of neglecting the objects which he observed 

 does not attach to our scientific countryman. Dr. Richardson. 

 His portion of the work entitled Fauna Boredli-Americdna, 

 has been among the most prominent productions of the past 

 year ; and will remain a standard volume to be referred to, 

 not only as a source of original information, but as a faithful 

 repository of all that had been previously known respecting 

 the Mammalia of North America. In addition to the several 

 novelties which he had some time before described in the 

 Zoological Journal, and which have been already noticed by 

 .my immediate predecessor, he has given us in his late valu- 

 ™able publication the following new animals : — ^'rctomys Dou- 

 glas.zV and A, Beechey/, Geomys Douglasz?, G. umbrinus, and 

 JDiplostoma bolbivorum. 



Mr. Geo. Tradescant Lay, who accompanied Capt. Beechey 

 in his late expedition in the Blossom, has afforded us an in- 

 teresting account of the habits and economy of the Pteropus 

 pselaphon, a new species of the group, which he observed in 

 the Island of Bonin. We trust that the reputation he has 

 attained by this his first essay in zoology will encourage him 

 to pursue a study in which he appears by his name to have an 

 hereditary interest. 



We owe to the industry and acumen of Mr. Ogilby, the 

 knowledge of a new species of the very limited group of Pa- 

 radoxurus, his Par. leucopus. We have also some remarks of 

 his on the Linnean genus J5J quus, which will shortly appear 

 in our Zoological Journal. This gentleman is one of the late 

 recruits to our science, and has already given us sufficient 

 earnest that he will not long remain in the subordinate 

 ranks. 



, Mr. Woods, an active and well known member of the Lin- 

 pean and Zoological Societies, has increased the catalogue of 

 the interesting group of the Antelopes by the account of a new 

 species, the Ant. personata. A more detailed description than 

 that already published of the animal, together with a plate, 

 have been prepared, and will shortly appear in the forthcoming 

 number of the Zoological Journal. From this gentleman, also, 

 who has honoured our London societies by transferring to 

 them the talents which he exerted with great credit to him- 

 self in the support of a provincial institution, we may expect 



