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this additional evidence of the extinct bird to Mr. Broderip, and in obtaining the 
permission of my noble host to make such use of the painting as might best subserve 
the interests of Natural History. Mr. Broderip communicated to the Zoological 
Society the following : — 
“ Notice of an Original Painting, including a Figure of the Podo, in the Collection of 
His Grace the HuTce of Northumberland, at Sion House. 
“Professor Owen, at whose disposal the Duke of Northumberland placed the fol- 
lowing additional pictorial evidence of the existence of the Dodo in the seventeenth 
century, has requested me to draw the attention of this Society to 
the highly interesting picture which the Duke has been so good as 
to send for the inspection of the Fellows. The size of the picture, 
which is in the finest preservation, is thirty-two inches by nineteen. 
It is executed in oil, and bears the following monogram and date. 
Mr. William Bussell, with his usual discernment, detected in this monogram the sig- 
Fig. 5. 
Dodo (from the painting by Goeimare, 1627, in Sion House). 
natures of J ean Goeimare and J ean David de Heem, and proved the correctness of his 
judgment by a reference to BruUiot'. Jean Goeimare, who is not noticed by Descamps, 
“ * Diet, des Monogrammes, 1 partie, pp. 201, 274.” 
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