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Study Appendix¹ to Tuckey's Expedition

Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Vol. VII Part II 1837 accounts of the various hares some since discovered of N. America,² & of the shrews.

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D^r Bachman³ told me that near Charleston ? three species near New York (600 miles N. ?) replaced by three other species.— Says all the hares West of Rocky Mountains have peculiar character in extreme length of ears & length of limbs, so that he first thought only one species. & all hares on East side have other

¹ ibid. Appendix V, p. 420, is by Robert Brown, "Observations, Systematical and Geographical on Professor Christian Smith's Collection of Plants from the Vicinity of the River Congo."
² John Bachman, "Observations on the different species of Hares (genus Lepus) inhabiting the United States and Canada ", Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 7, 1837, p. 282.
³ ibid., p. 358; also personal communication.

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peculiar appearances. Now this is precisely the case with the mice of S. America with respect to the Cordillera.— Bachman has seen webbed shrew, case of adaptation.— (case of Squirrel from extreme north turning white like Hares ?) I never saw more beautiful adaptation for snow like snow shoes than feet & hind legs of these white hares, fitted for region of snow.—

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In Holme's History of Man at Maer,¹ it is said the Samoyed women (?North end of the Oural mountains) have black nipples to their breasts.—
L'Institut, 1838, p. 230 says the Macrotherium of Europe is between the anteater of C of Good Hope & those of S. America.² — Are not some of the Australian fossils intermediate between those of Van Diemen's land & Australia proper.— Irish Elk case of fossil geographical range.

¹ Henry Holme, Lord Karnes, Sketches of the History of Man, London, 1774.
² Henri-Marie de Blainville, "Dépôt d'ossements fossiles de Sanson ", L'Institut, tome 6, 1838, p. 230:"Macrotherium, qui démontre en Europe 1'existence d'un genre intérmediaire au Pangoline et à 1'Orycteryx d'Afrique et aux Fourmiliers d'Amérique".

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