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and among these, more than 360 new species or genera were said to 

 be discovered, — a fact which we rather doubt, and which is scarcely- 

 borne out by the volumes now before us. Arrived in France, these 

 were put under the care of MM. Isid. GeofFroy Saint Hilaire, Les- 

 son, Valenciennes, Deshayes and Guerin ; the historical and bo- 

 tanical portions being entrusted to Belanger. The present volumes, 

 the one an 8vo of descriptive letter- press, the other a 4to atlas of 

 illustrative plates, are devoted to Zoology alone, and we shall now 

 shortly notice them. 



Mammi feres par M. Isidore Geoff. Saint Hilaire. — Commences 

 by some short general remarks upon Geographic Zoology. — Next a 

 tabular view of the monkeys of the old world is given, intended as a 

 supplement to what Humboldt has done for those of the new. To 

 Humboldt's Synopsis a considerable number will now have to be 

 added ; and such is the progress of zoology, that in the last two years, 

 M. Geoffroy's present list can be yet enlarged. In conclusion, a 

 table is given showing the species of Desmarest and those of Geof- 

 froy. Of the first, 42 species are given as really authenticated ; in 

 the last they are increased to 50. In the first, 4 are held to be al- 

 together suppressed as synonymous or false, and 3 as doubtful. In 

 his own list, 8 are styled as resting upon indifferent authority, and 

 the total number recorded in 1834 are estimated at 58. Geoffroy 

 next proceeds to describe five species which he considers new, but 

 without reference to their being procured during the expedition of 

 Belanger, or of being natives of India. Two of these are figured, 

 Semnopithecus cucullatus, Geoff, a native of the coast of Malabar, 

 and vicinity of Bombay, and somewhat allied apparently to the S. 

 maurus ; and Macacus aureus, Geoff, also a native of India and the 

 Islands, and previously noticed as the Cercopithecus mulatta. 



Among the Cheiroptera, five species are described, and Vesper- 

 tilio Belangerii, Geoff., considered new, is figured, inhabiting the 

 coast of Coromandel, and the houses in the vicinity of Pondicherry. 



The genus Tupaia of Raffles is first noticed among the " Insec- 

 tivores." Speaking of the discovery of this curious genus, he says, 

 it has been sometimes attributed to Raffles, sometimes to Diard ; 

 but the truth is, that it belongs to neither of these travellers, but to 

 M. Leschenault de la Tour, who sent a specimen to the Paris mu- 

 seum in 1807- The known species seem to be under a certain 

 confusion, the young and adult being similarly named at one time, 

 and the reverse at another, by various authors. But M. Geoffroy 

 thinks that the collection of Belanger possessed another, perfectly 

 distinct from any of the states of the formerly known animals, and 



