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MEMOIR OF 
both brought up in the Parisian school of the Gar- 
(ien of Plants, and to their discoveries, after the ter- 
mination of their agreement with Sir Stamford, we 
are indebted for several new and curious productions. 
Nearly at this period. Sir Stamford's discoveries in 
Zoology were published in the Transactions of the 
Linnean Society ; among these may be mentioned 
the Ursus Malaj’anus, forming the Genus Helarctos 
of Horsfield ; the Felis macrocelis, or Rimau dahan ; 
the Viverra gymnura, which Messrs Vigors and Hors- 
field afterwards dedicated to its discoverer under the 
title of Gymnura Rafflesii; several very interesting 
quadrumanous animals, and the Indian Tapir. In 
tracing out these animals, great difficulty often arose; 
they inhabited the interior, and the first indication of 
them was perhaps some rude hint or native descrip- 
tion ; thus, Sir Stamford was of opinion that another 
large tapir-looking animal inhabited the forests, with a 
narrow riband of white round the back and belly ; 
the description was simply, that the band is narrow, 
head truncated, the tail long ; and they had to be 
sought for and obtained in districts, little, if ever, 
visited, and where there was often a superstitions 
dread, which no persuasion or temptation could over- 
come. Among the rarer birds, we are also indebted 
to these researches for Eurylamus, Calyptomena, 
&c. All these were proposed to have been illus- 
trated in a work entitled Museum Raffiesianum, but 
which we fear has not reached a step farther than 
its contemplation. 
