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the protei in general. This naturalist has 

 also recognized two new species of masto- 

 dontes, and a real elephant, among the 

 fossil bones of quadrupeds which we 

 brought from America *. The description 

 of the insects collected by Mr. Bonpland 

 is due to Mr. Latreille, whose labours have 

 so much contributed to the progress of en- 

 tomology in our times. The second vo- 

 lume of this work will contain the figures 

 of the Mexican, Peruvian, and Aturian 

 skulls, which we have deposited in the Mu- 

 seum of Natural History at Paris, and on 

 which Mr. Blumenbach has already pub- 

 lished observations in the Decas quinta 

 craniorum diversarum gentium. 



VI. Political essay on the kingdom of 

 New Spain, with a physical and geogra- 

 phical atlas, founded on astronomical ob- 

 servations, and trigonometrical and baro- 

 metrical measurement *f\ This work, found - 



* Ann. of the Museum of Nat. Hist. t. viii, p. 57, 

 and pp. 419, 413, pi. 2, figs. 1, 5. 



f Polit. Ess, &c. in two vols, in 4to, and an Atlas 

 of twenty charts in folio. My general map of the 

 kingdom of New Spain, formed on astronomical obser- 

 vations, and on the whole of the materials which ex- 

 isted in Mexico in 1804, has been copied by Mr. 



