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not ; this was in the year 1 77^. Much about the same time there 

 were a few specimens dispersed among the curious, most of which 

 appear to have been in spirits, Camper acknowledging the present of 

 one from Mr. Hope, another was lent to him by Vosmaer, a third was 

 received from Van Hoey, and a fourth from Van der Meulin ; but 

 the most material acquisition of this kind to the European naturalist, 

 about that period, was a living example brought from Borneo into 

 Holland in the year 1776, the particulars of which were published by 

 Vosmaer two years after, and the figure inserted in the Dutch edition 

 by Allamand. In the year 1808 there was a living animal of this kind 

 in Paris, which had been presented by Decaen to the Empress Jose- 

 phine, the skin of which having passed through the hands of the 

 Taxidermist, is now preserved in the Paris Museum. The 

 only example of the species that has been seen alive in this country 

 within our memory is that which was brought hither by Mr. Clarke 

 Abel, one of the gentlemen attached to the suite of Lord Amherst in 

 his embassy to the court of China. The animal had been presented 

 to Mr. Abel when the C^sar touched at Java, on her return home- 

 wards, and very happily survived the difficulties of a sea passage, 

 and lived about two years after its arrival in England. Eor the 

 possession of this rare animal," says Mr. Abel, " the scientific world 

 is indebted to Captain Methuen, who brought him from Banjermas- 

 sing on the south coast of Borneo to Java, and in hope of aiding the 

 cause of science placed him in my possession; the natives (of Borneo) 

 informed Captain Methuen that he had been brought from the high 

 lands of the interior, and that he was very difficult and rare to take, 

 and they evidently considered him a great curiosity as they flocked 

 round to see him." p. 319 



