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M. Brongniait generously filled up the voids with specimens from his 

 private cabinet. 



Amongst the objects more lately placed in the hall of mineralogy, we 

 owe the following to M. Leschenault : ist. Superb specimens of moon- 

 stone, found by him in its gangue. 2d. Some corundums also in their 

 gangue and of large size. We may mention also a ferruginous and 

 siliceous pudding stone named cascalho dos diamantes, or pebble of dia- 

 monds, and which is the gangue of this precious gem in Brazil, whence 

 it was brought by M. Auguste de Saint-Hilaire : it was not known in 

 Europe. 



The galleries of zoology and botany are considerably enriched, as 

 will be seen from what we are about to say concerning the acquisitions 

 due to the zeal of our travellers and correspondents. 



M. Leschenault dela Tour and M. Auguste de Saint-Hilaire returned 

 a few months ago ; the former, who during a stay of six years in the 

 peninsula of India and in the island of Ceylon had sent us many speci- 

 mens, has brought home a collection composed of objects from the three 

 kingdoms. We have spoken of the minerals ; we may now cite among 

 the mammifera the bear of the mountains of the Gates, two apes of 

 Ceylon, the paradoxurus typus, which was wanting in the cabinet, and 

 also some fishes and reptiles of the isle of Bourbon (1). 



M. Auguste de Saint-Hilaire has for six years been travelling through- 

 out Brazil and the settlements of Paraguay, from the 12th to the 34th 

 degree ; he has analyzed and described on the spot all the plants 

 he could collect (2). He has taken notes upon the animals, and has 

 brought home one of the most considerable and curious collections of 

 botany and zoology that ever arrived at our Museum (3). 



(1) The paradoxurus ty pus, Fr. Gut., was brought alive, also a small red maki of Madagascar, 

 and six species of tortoise. 



(a) M. Auguste de Saint-Hilaire has finished his manuscript of the history of the plants of 

 Brazil. It would be important for the progress of botany that this work were published., with 

 the engravings representing the most interesting new genera and species. 



(3) To shew how much this collection has enriched us, we shall here transcribe what the pro- 

 fessors have said in their report to the academy of sciences on the voyage of M, Auguste Saint 

 Ililaire. 



• The collection contains: 1st, one hundred and twenty nine individuals of the mammifera 

 » forming forty-eight species, of which thirteen were not in the Museum. Among these are two 

 1 bats; a new«n*£a seniculus; the aguaraehay, a species of jackall known only by the description of 

 • Azzara ; a porcupine with a prehensile tail, and a new species of the rodentia named moco. 



