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Fig. 66. Hair of Fallow Deer : A, tip of hair; B, root of ditto. 



Fig. 67. Root of Human Hair x J 20, 



Fig. 6S. Hairs of Omit horht/nchus paradoxus. New Holland. 



The figures are all drawn under the same power, 

 viz. ^o objective and A ocular, magnifying about 

 120 diameters. The most remarkable of all I have 

 noticed is the hair of the Ornithorhynchus para- 

 doxus, one of the Monotremata, which is covered 



Fig. 69. Centre of Hair of Fallow Deer, showing polygona! 

 cells X 120. 



with brown fur. It is found only in Western 

 Australia. The hairs are broad and flat in some 



tig. ;o. Hair of Bat x 120. 



parts, and in others, becoming narrower, they 

 suddenly taper to a thread, and then widen out 



