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M. ALPHONSE ROBERT, the energetic natural history collector who accompanied Dr. Forsyth Major some years ago in his expedition to Madagascar, and who only returned to England a few months ago from a three years' sojourn in Brazil, has just started on another collecting trip to the latter country, where his first destination is Para. The expenses of both the previous and the present expedition, which are undertaken in the interests of the British Museum, are borne by Mrs. Percy Sladen. M. Robert, we understand, intends to spend some time collecting at Para, and thence to ascend the Amazons into Peruvian territory. The specimens collected by M. Robert during his last trip have done much to increase our knowledge of the mammalian fauna of the Matto Grosso and adjacent districts of Brazil, and the novelties obtained have been from time to time recorded by Mr. O. Thomas in the Annals of Natural History. Among these are several new bats (one indicating a new generic type), a squirrel, and a new race of the crab-eating fox (Canis thous angulensis). M. Robert has also obtained a fine series of skins of the large and handsome brown woolly spider-monkey (Brachy-teles arachnoides), a pair of which are now being set up by Mr. Rowland Ward for the British (Natural History) Museum.