THE RED LEMUR. 
Lemur ruber. Peron. 
The Red Lemur is not only one of the most beautiful 
animals of the singular group to which it belongs, but 
it also possesses the additional recommendation of being 
unquestionably the rarest known species. Although 
originally discovered by Commerson, among whose 
papers a drawing of it was found, it remained unknown 
to science until the return to France of the memorable 
expedition under Captain Baudin. The zoologists of 
that celebrated voyage, MM. Peron and Le Sueur, 
brought home with them a single skin, from which they 
were enabled to characterize it as a distinct species. 
Nothing farther was known with respect to it until 
within ten years of the present time, when a living 
individual, scarcely more than half as large as that 
which now exists in the Society's collection, was 
brought to Paris and was figured by M. Frederic 
