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recourse to this marvellous depository. In the court yards of 
this museum lives the gigantic American Salamandride, which 
in consequence of the decided opinion of those professors as to 
its being a true Salamander, it fell to my lot to call Sieholdia ; 
a name which it has been afterwards vainly attempted to change 
into Megalobatrachus, and more recently (therefore less ex- 
cusably) into Gryptohranchus ; but I shall the more earnestly 
insist on the former appellation, because it commemorates the 
famous Dr. Siebold, who brought this Amphibian all the way 
from Japan, with other most interesting curiosities. 
Temminck has concluded the series of his Planches Golo- 
riees, forming a sequel to those of BulFon, and accompanied 
by an index which has hardly equalled expectation. He has 
also completed the fourth volume of his Manuel d' Ornitho- 
logies which had been long expected, and in which is included 
a supplement to the preceding volumes, and a considerable 
nnmber of species, either wholly unpublished, or new to the 
European Fauna. A good work, on the Birds of this quarter 
of the globe, would have been much less imperiously wanted, 
if Temminck’s Manuel d' Ornithologies praised as it has been, 
especially in France, had been improved in its classification, 
its style, its arrangement of the descriptions (which, however, 
are very characteristic), and its notices of habits. The same 
naturalist has resumed, after a long interval, his very useful 
Monographs of Mammalia, among which the most anxiously 
expected was that intended to clear up the genus Vespertilios 
more especially as the publication of his researches on these 
animals had been retarded more than twenty years. As long 
ago as 1830, I remarked in my Osservazioni sulla seconda 
edizione del Regno Anhnale del Cuviers “ I shall abstain from 
saying more on the Chiroptera (of America) to which I at one 
time gave my attention, but afterwards entrusted the specimens 
which I had collected to the learned Temminck, who is in a 
position to make a better use of them than I can do.” We 
may therefore conclude, that he has devoted very little time 
to this subject during these twenty years, for notwithstanding 
his immense materials, and the aid which he has received from 
every side, the work would have afibrded us but little light if 
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