and Giraffe from North of India, 589 



species of giraffe, which he names Camelopardalis Biturigum, Pro- 

 fessor Owen, from the examination of a cast, confirms the result, 

 expressing his conviction " that in the more essential characters the 

 Isoodun fossil closely approaches the genus Giraffe, but differs strik- 

 ingly from the {single) existing species of the south and east of 

 Africa, and that the deviations tend towards the sub-genus Elk." 



M. Duvernoy also mentions the discovery of a tooth in the mo- 

 lasse near Neufchatel, by M. Nicolet, determined by M. Agassiz to 

 be the outer incisor of a fossil giraffe. — (Duvernoy, Annales des 

 Sciences Naturelles, No. for January 1844.) — Proceedings Geological 

 Society. 



Botany of the Brazils, from the President's address to the Linncean 



Society. 



Don Jos<? Pavon, a botanist of considerable merit, and the col- 

 league of Ruiz in the memorable botanical expedition dispatched to 

 Peru by the Spanish Government in the year 1777, from which 

 were obtained such important results both in collections and publica- 

 tions. On the recommendation of Ortega, then Professor of Botany 

 at Madrid, the expedition was placed under the direction of Ruiz, 

 who was accompanied by Pavon and by two artists, Brunete and 

 Galvez. M. Dombey also, who had been dispatched from France 

 on a similar mission, was allowed to accompany them ; and during 

 a residence of ten years they visited many of the most interesting 

 districts of Peru and Chile. In 1788 Ruiz and Pavon returned to 

 Europe, bringing with them large collections of plants and an exten- 

 sive series of botanical drawings, and leaving behind them two of 

 their pupils, Tafalla (afterwards Professor of Botany in the University 

 of Lima), and Pulgar (an artist of merit), to continue their investi- 

 gations. The collections thus made by themselves, and those which 

 were subsequently transmitted to them, formed the basis of a series 

 of works on the botany of the Western Regions of South America, 

 which, had they been carried on to completion, would have been in- 

 deed a magnificent contribution to science, and which even in their 

 present incomplete state are of high importance. The first of these 

 publications appeared in 1794, under the title of ' Florae Peruviana; 



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