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I NOTICED in your issue of June 15 a paragraph about the Galapagos tortoises. I do not know if this information is of any interest, but during my residence in Hawaii I knew of two living there. One of them lived in a garden near Hilo, and belonged to the late Captain Thomas Spencer; I last saw it about 1880. The other one lived on the Waimea plains in a perfectly wild state, and I used frequently to come across it when out shooting. It used to wander about within a radius of three or four miles.
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PURVIS, W. The Giant Tortoises of the Galapagos. Nature 60, 199 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060199a0
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