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which you have now received from Mr. Swinton, and which you have done me the 
honor to place in my hands for examination and dissection. 
It may not perhaps be altogether uninteresting to that gentleman to be informed, 
that two portions of the animal have arrived and have been examined, though in 
avery cursory way, by me; the shortness of the day and darkness of our climate 
during the winter months forbidding all attempts at more minute inquiry for the 
present. These portions are, the head and upper or anterior part of the trunk, 
including the arms, and seemingly the pyoid bones with the connected soft parts. 
This portion seems in excellent condition, and will no doubt afford ample scope for 
dissection ; the details of which, together with illustrative sketches, I shall so soon 
as they are properly arranged and finished, put into your hands, in order to be trans- 
mitted to Mr. SwinToN, this being the very smallest return we can make for his so 
great kindness in transmitting the specimen. 
The other portion is the posterior part of the vertebral column and tail; but the 
middle portion, containing all the viscera, I have not yet seen. It will be readily 
understood by every anatomist and naturalist, and I hope also by Mr. Swinton, 
that this division of the animal into three portions was the greatest misfortune 
which could have happened, since it involved the cutting across so many important 
parts, the division of all the great vessels and nerves, the displacement of almost 
all the organs, and the destruction of many; so that it is not to be concealed, that 
the value of the specimen has been incalculably diminished. It would I fear 
be presuming too much to hope that the Dugong might one day reach us entire, 
in a good state and untouched; inasmuch as the difficulty of procuring these 
animals is very great, and when taken would require to be immediately placed in a 
cask of ardent spirits, and carefully enclosed. But however this may be, I shall 
bestow every pains in my power to make the most of those portions which have 
already come to hand, and beg to return you and to the Royal Society my thanks 
for having placed at my disposal an anatomical specimen deemed by me of so great 
value.” 
2.—WNepal Specimens. 
[Extract from the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, Jan. 24, 1832.) 
William Yarrell, Esq. in the Chair. 
“‘ Specimens were exhibited of various Mammalia and Birds, collected in Nepal by 
B. H. Hopecson, Esq. Corr. Memb. Z. S., British Resident at Katmandoo. For’ 
this exhibition, the Committee was indebted to the kindness of Dr. N. Watuicn, 
to whom the skins had been transmitted by Mr. Hopeson. 
The Mammalia included specimens of a new species of Felis, L.; of two Antfe- 
lopes, one the Chiru and the other new to science ; and of the wild Dog of Nepal. 
They were accompanied by colored figures, and, except in the instance of the 
latter*, by accounts of the several animals from the pen of Mr. Hodgson. These 
accounts were read. 
The new species of Felis is described as the Moormi Cat, a name derived from 
that of the tribe which inhabits the part of the hills in which the animal was taken. 
It was entirely unknown to the natives, and had consequently no local name. It 
may be thus characterizedt. 
* This account will be found to be supplied in the 2nd pt. Trans. Phys. Cl. As. Soc. 
+ Mr. Hodgson’s description is given in the GLEANINGS, iii. p. 177. 
