272 Sir Everard Home's account of the skeletons of the 
surer of the Missionary Society, in the Old Jewry, to see the 
horns of a double-horned rhinoceros, brought from the interior 
of Africa by Mr. Campbell, whose travels will soon be laid 
before the public. As far as respects the appearance of the 
horns, it is intirely a new species. The lowest horn does not, 
as in the other species of this animal, both single and double- 
horned, stand upon the upper surface of the nasal bones, 
pointing upwards, but it is set on upon a projection, as it 
were, on the end of these bones, standing with its base nearly 
horizontal, pointing forwards and a little upwards ; in this 
respect a true unicorn. It is a yard long, very small at the 
point, and two feet in circumference at the base. The small 
horn is close to it, and stands up perpendicularly behind the 
base of the long one, as if it were to give it support, and is 
only twelve inches high, while the circumference of its base 
is twenty-four inches. 
There can be no doubt of this being the animal that has 
given rise to various reports of a true unicorn having at last 
been discovered in Africa. 
The tapir of Sumatra, as well as that of America, have a 
greater general resemblance to the rhinoceros than to any 
other animal. 
When the bones of these two species of tapir are compared, 
they are found very closely to resemble one another. The 
skull of that of Sumatra has a broader frontal bone, and no 
middle ridge; the two nasal bones, which in both species 
have the shape of a heart on cards, stand higher, and are 
