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phy, the two branches which the author particularly boasts of his 

 desire to investigate ; he does not appear to have made a single ob- 

 servation to ascertain either the latitude, longitude, or elevation of 

 the places he visited, nor to have carried any instruments for that 

 purpose ; and this is the more to be regretted, as he visited a part of 

 the country very seldom penetrated by Europeans. The positions 

 on his map are consequently laid down at least 20° wrong in lati- 

 tude, and their longitude of course must have been taken at random. 

 Though not a practised zoologist, Capt. Harris's hints on habits and 

 localities are often valuable, and they are given but as incidental 

 to the great thread of his discourse, which is a lively narrative of a 

 shooting excursion and nothing more ; but this very character deprives 

 them of suspicion. To the end of the volume is added a descriptive 

 Catalogue of the Mammalia of Southern Africa, but which contains 

 little that was not previously known : it is in fact chiefly copied 

 (though without acknowledgment) from Dr. Andrew Smith's " African 

 Zoology," a small work printed at Cape Town about eight or ten years 

 since, and we believe never published, though freely circulated among the 

 friends of the amiable and talented author. 



We have thus attempted to give a fair and impartial account of Capt. 

 Harris's volume. It is written in the lively dashing spirit of a soldier and 

 a sportsman : no one can read it without amusement, and few without 

 some instruction ; and if truth has obliged us to mingle some slight 

 censure with our general praise of the performance, it is because the 

 pretensions which the atithor makes to scientific knowledge create 

 expectations which are disappointed in the perusal. 



Proceedings of the Zoological Society. 



March 12, 1839.— William Yarrell, Esq., in the Chair. 



Mr. Ogilby communicated a portion of a letter which he had re- 

 ceived from M. Temminck. It related to two species of Monkeys, 

 Colobus fuliginosus and Papio speciosus ; the former M. Temminck con- 

 siders identical with the Bay-Monkey of Pennant, and he states that 

 this opinion is founded upon its agreement with a coloured drawing 

 now in his possession ; this drawing having been taken by Sydenham 

 Edwards from the specimen of the Bay-Monkey formerly in the Leve- 

 rian Museum, and which is the original of Pennant's description. 



The Macacus speciosus of M. F. Cuvier is stated by M. Temminck to be 

 founded upon an immature specimen of a species of Macacus which 

 inhabits Japan ; the habitat of Molucca Islands given by M. F. Cuvier 



