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APPENDIX 



to Session 1856-7. 



List of Coleoptera received from Old Calabar, on the West Coast 

 of Africa. By Andrew Murray, Edinburgh. 



[Read 26th Nov. 1856. See p. 222 ante.'] 



Part I. 



A part of the West Coast of Africa, about the natural produc- 

 tions of which we know less than of many other parts of the coast, 

 has within the last few years been opened up to us by the esta- 

 blishment of a mission station at Old Calabar. This station 

 has been established by the United Presbyterian Church of 

 Scotland; and most fortunately for science, the missionaries 

 and their assistants who have been sent there, have been not 

 only able and diligent in their proper calling, but also intelligent 

 and observing men, who have availed themselves of their posi- 

 tion to make and transmit to this country collections in different 

 branches of natural history. The gentlemen I allude to are 

 the Rev. Hope M. Waddeli and the Rev. Mr. Goldie, Mr. W. 

 C. Thomson and Mr. John R. Wylie. From all of these gentle- 

 men collections have been received, from which I have profited, 

 and which have put me in the position of being able to form 

 something like a catalogue of the Coleoptera of that country. 

 I think I may with justice say, that from these sources I possess 

 a larger amount of materials for making up such a catalogue 

 than any other person ; and as a great number of the species 

 are new and curious, and the whole are specially interesting in 

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