Letter from Albert Le Souef, Raraku, Mossman, Sydney to Ludwig Glauert.Le Souef is writing up new data re: habits and life history of seals and wishes to give a resume of all species in Australian waters.Wishes a loan of the skull of the fur seal of the
Australian Bite (sic), which he presumes is Arctocephalus forsteri.Wishes to make sure by examination and would like to compare it with the skull of an animal from New Zealand.The common fur seal of the east coast is thought to be Otaria conerea and the hair seal from Kangaroo Island to the Abrolhos is Zalophus lobatus.
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