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died in 48?) to Mamertus, bishop of Vienne in Dauphiny, requesting from 

 him a copy of the form of rogations used by the latter on the irruption of 

 the heathen hordes who entered France by that route, to avert the evils of 

 that event ; " for a more dreadful calamity had befallen parts of his 

 diocese, from the breaking out of a creeping fire which was consuming the 

 surface of a considerable district in those parts, particularly in Velay and 

 the Vivarais. Dupin mentions the circumstance in his Ecclesiastical His- 

 tory of the Jifth century. -^Literary Gazette, No. 630, p. 108. 



ZOOLOGY. 



21. Mammalia. — Mr Babbage has drawn up a table, to which we direct the 

 attention of travellers and residents in foreign countries, calculated to express 

 in columns all the properties of Mammalia capable of indication by number. 

 Similar tables may be easily formed, so as to include the distinctive charac- 

 ters of the other vertebrated animals ; and where specimens cannot be 

 transmitted home whole, a correct statement of the particulars mentioned, 

 will enable the Zoologist to determine, with considerable precision, the 

 zoological characters of an animal from stuffed specimens. The particulars 

 detailed, form the titles of columns in which the dimensions &c. are ex- 



OBSERVATIOKS. 



Name. 

 Length from tip of tail to"" 



end of nose. 

 Height from ground to 



top of shoulder. 

 Length of tail. J^Male. 



Length of head. 

 Greatest breadth of head. 

 Weight of Animal. 

 Weight of skeleton. 

 Length from tip of tail to" 



end of nose. 

 Height from ground to 



top of shoulder. 

 Length of tail. ^Female. 



Length of head. 

 Greatest breadth of head. 

 Weight of Animal. 

 Weight of skeleton. 

 Number of Mammae. 

 Period of Gestation, in days. 

 Period of blindness after birth. 

 Period at which they cease sucking. 

 Period of maturity. 

 Period of old age. 

 Number of young at a birth. 

 Proportion of males to females. 

 Animal heat. Thermometer of 

 Number of pulsations per minute. 



Number of inspirations per minute. 



Number of species known. 



Number of toes or claws. 



Divisions of hoof. 



Facial angle. 



Proportion of weight of cerebrum 



to that of body. 

 Proportion of weight of cerebrum 



to cerebellum. 

 Length of intestinal canal. 

 Proportion of intestinal canal to 



length of body. 

 Proportion of intestinal canal to its 



circumference. 

 Nature of food. 

 Grinders. \ 

 Canine teeth > Upper jaw. 

 Incisive. ) 

 Grinders. "I 

 Canine teeth \ Lower jaw. 



)>Teeth. 



Incisive. } 

 Structure of grinders. 

 Total number. 

 Number of Cervical. 

 Number of Dorsal. 

 Number of Lumbar. 

 Number of Sacral. 

 Number of Caudal, 



^Vertebrae. 



