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animal, and who has even described and figured 
it with sufficient exactness to prove that it was 
not a mere Sepia or Cuttle, but that it was really 
furnished with the palmated arms which operated 
as sails, and occasionally as oars in swimming, 
Rumphius’s observations were however, in a great 
degree, unknown to the generality of writers, by 
being inserted in a work entitled Ephemerides 
Naturae Curiosorum. 
In the British Museum is a specimen of this 
dried and expanded upon paper, accompanied 
by a model in wax, seated in the natural shell. 
From an inspection of the dried specimen alone 
all doubts must vanish as to the real existence 
of the animal, and it was from this specimen, 
assisted by the model, that the figure which I my- 
self caused to be published of the Paper-Nautilus 
in the act of sailing was executed. 
This figure of the animal seated in the shell is 
the first that has been given since the days of 
Rumphius. Being particularly solicitous on this 
subject, I requested the late Professor Sibthorpe of 
Oxford, to attend, during his travels, to the history 
of this animal, and to endeavour by every possible 
method to obtain a specimen, in order to remove 
