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XVIII. An account of the skeletons of the dugong, two-horned 
rhinoceros, and tapir of Sumatra, sent to England by Sir 
Thomas Stamford Raffles, Governor of Bencoolen. By Sir 
Everard Home, Bart. V. P. R. S. 
Read March 22, 1821. 
Judging from the exertions Sir Thomas Raffles has 
already made in promoting the pursuits of Natural History 
and Comparative Anatomy, during the short time he has 
been in Sumatra, we may at no distant period expect to be 
furnished with materials sufficient to give a most satisfactory 
account of all the natural productions of the Island. 
In the interval between his account of that extraordinary 
animal the dugong, being read before the Society, and its 
being inserted in the Transactions, he has afforded fresh 
proofs of his exertions, and has sent me the skull, the vis- 
cera, and the bones of that animal ; so that, in addition to 
the account of its internal organs illustrated by drawings, I 
am now enabled to give an exact representation of the ske- 
leton by Mr. Clift, upon the same scale as that of the ex- 
ternal appearance of the animal, which has a place in a former 
paper, which is two inches to a foot. 
Sir T. S. Raffles’ description of this animal was so clear and 
distinct, that a Memoir since read to the Society, written by 
two French naturalists employed under his direction, was so 
nearly the same, as to make it superfluous to have it pub- 
lished. 
