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380 History of British Shells, Marine, Land, and Freshwater, including the most minute, systematically arranged and embellished with figures,' 4to, London, 1803. Supplement to the preceding, 1809, with plates and descriptions of new species. In the 'Transactions ' of the Linnean Society he published the following papers:—"Description of three rare species of British Birds," vol. iv. 1796. "Description of several Marine Animals found on the coast of Devonshire," vol. vii. 1802. "On some species of British Quadrupeds, Birds, and Fishes," vol. vii. 1803. "On the larger and lesser species of Horseshoe Bats, proving them to be distinct, with a description of Vespertilio barbastellus taken in the south of Devonshire," vol. ix. 1805. "On the Natural History of the Falco cyaneus and pygargus" vol. ix. 1807. "Of several new or rare Animals, principally Marine, discovered on the south coast of Devonshire," vol. xi. 1809. "Of some new and rare British Marine Shells and Animals," ib. He also furnished six papers to the Wernerian Natural History Society, which were published between March, 1809, and March, 1815.

following very interesting communication has recently appeared in the 'Westminster Gazette':—

"The appetite of the zoological world has been very much whetted of late by the news of the discovery in South Patagonia of a portion of mammalian skin which, it is conjectured, may once have formed part of a genuine Mylodon, or Ground Sloth. This interesting animal has long been supposed to be extinct, and its reappearance in the wilds of South America would create a sensation as pronounced almost as if a Great Bustard had again swooped down upon Cavenham Heath, or a Large Copper been brought to the net in the neighbourhood of Whittlesea Mere. To use a departmental expression, some further tidings of the Mylodon—whether in flesh or fossil—are just now very much 'wanted,' and besides Mr. H.S.H. Cavendish, the well-known traveller, who has gone forth with confidence to shoot one for the authorities at South Kensington, Mr. George Davis and Mr. Scott, of Aberystwyth, are making tracks for the monster in the Patagonian forests at the instance of the Hon. Walter Rothschild, M.P., the owner of the famous museum at Tring.

"The details of this important, and possibly sensational, discovery come from two different sources, and are somewhat conflicting. Dr. F.P. Moreno, who recently arrived in England, brought with him a portion of the skin (described as being as dry as leather, hairy, and thickly encrusted with some bony substance), which was found hanging in a tree, it being part of a much larger piece which some Argentine officers had dug up in a cavern several years previously. In close proximity were discovered some