2% ACCOUNT OF the: 



ihe Society Cd-n bellow upon it : snd it has therefore been deem- 

 ed advifabie, to publifii the following additioas to the valviable 

 communication of Major ^arquhar : the fird of thefe, frcm 

 the pen of a diftingoifhed pupil of 'Our iliuftrious affociate' 

 M. CoviEB, ftiews fatisfaflorily, that the animal difcovered 

 by Major Farquhar is effentially the fame es _ the Tapir of 

 Sovth America, and the fecond from G. J. Siddons Esq. late Re-- 

 iident at Bencookn, prefenting to the SoctEiy a living animal of 

 this dercription, informs us of a ^61, which is equally interefti«g 

 in -A geological and zoological ^itw^ and proves that the ^^^i^" 

 teo.ce of the oriental ^MmbuQl limited to tjae Peaij^fiila -of M<s- 



Mrmiiom hy M. Diarb^ on tlm Tapir of Malacca, 



an error has originated with a" diftingiiiO:i-€d writer Tt 

 paffes loDg current trnder his, fandion, and is ilowiy and relu.c« 

 laotiy contifted ; it .is to this ^ircumftance v^'e muft attribute 

 the repetition by hmnjEus^ B-uffoNj S-haw, and other eminent 

 naturaltfts, of the mi^ake cojiiffiitied by Margbavej when he firil 

 gave a fcientifii: defcription c>,F the I'AFm of South Jmerka^ aed 

 who has erroneouny affertedj that the aniroal had but twenty 

 teeth in each jaw ; or ten mdores, t^n incifores, and no denies _ 

 canini ^ it is not eafy to conceive how Ma.kghave, in general fo 

 exafij and who had fo many opportunities in the Brazils^ of ex« 

 ■ amining the living aoiml, i]i ould have fallen intofuch an error, 

 for the Tapir of America has in the upper jaw 14 grinders, two) 

 canine, and Sx catting teeth-, and in the lower jaw, but 12 grin- 

 ders, with the fame number of canine and .cutting teeth as in 



