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through these last departments of the Mu- 

 seum, and picvented me Irom noticing 

 many interesting lacts belonging to less 

 important parts of the subject. I may, 

 however, mention that Mr. Clift informs 

 me, when Dr. Schreibers, of Vienna, whose 

 account of the anatomy of the siren lacertina 

 is published in the Philosophical Transac- 

 tions of the year 1801, (which is the only 

 animal known to possess both lungs and 

 gills, and consequently fitted to live both in 

 air and water,) inspected the preparations of 

 the pulmonary and other organs of that ani- 

 mal contained in the Museum, he was sur- 

 prized to find that Mr. Hunter knew nearly, 

 if not all the facts relating to its anatomy, 

 which he himself had been able to com- 

 municate to the public. Two species of 

 the siren were examined by Mr. Hunter, 

 one of which was brought from South 

 Carolina, in 1758, and afterwards bought 

 by him. Also, after Dr. Latham had pub- 

 lished his account of the conformation of 

 the larynges of various birds *, he was sur- 



* Linnean Transaction.'s, Vol. iv. 

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