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DR. GIGLIOLI asserts, in his interesting letter published in the last issue of NATURE (p. 102), that the Lepidosiren whose capture he records is “the fifth specimen known.” Reference to his earlier remarks (NATURE, vol. xxxv. p. 343), concerning that which he regards as “the fourth known” specimen, shows that while he has acknowledged, the examples of Natterer and Castlenau, he has apparently overlooked that of Bibron and H. Milne-Edwards, recorded in 1840. Readers of NATURE interested in this wonderful creature, now apparently verging on extinction, will find a résumé of all that is topographically important concerning the last-named and the three previously recorded specimens in the Zoolog. Jahrb. for 1887 (pp. 575 to 583). For this welcome communication, to which a full bibliography is appended, we are indebted to Dr. G. Baur, of Yale College Museum, U.S.A. It forms one of the series of historical miscellanea with which he has enriched our recent literature; and, if the conclusions at which he (in common with Brühl) arrives are sound, Dr. Giglioli's “fifth” specimen will be in reality a sixth.
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HOWES, G. Dr. Giglioli and Lepidosiren. Nature 38, 126 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038126b0
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