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lion of the gland in question being entirely different from that 

 of the mammary gland in woman, and especially in the marsu- 

 pial animals, in the absence of all traces of teats, together with 

 the existence of a beak, which would render suction extremely 

 difficult, if not impossible, and on various other circumstances. 

 He thinks that the gland in question is analogous to that which 

 exists on the sides of the salamanders, or still more to the glan- 

 dular apparatus on the abdomen of the sorices or shrews which 

 is destined to secrete a fetid humour, especially during the breed- 

 ing season. 



S5. Remarhable Hybrid, — '- There is here at present an ani- 

 mal produced between a stag and a mare. The authorities of the 

 place have attested the phenomenon. The appearance of the 

 creature is very singular ; the fore part is that of a horse, the 

 hinder part that of a stag ; but all the feet are like those of the 

 latter animal. The same stag has covered another mare. The 

 king has purchased the hybrid for the Pfaueninsel, where there 

 is a menagerie.''-— iJ^^rac^ of a Letter to M. de FerussaCy dated 

 Berlin, 9^1 th January 1827. 



36. Microscojjic Observations on Animal Tissues ; by Dr 

 HoDGKiN, and J. J. Lister. — In a very interesting paper in 

 the Annals of Philosophy, for August 1827, Dr Hodgkin and 

 Mr Lister state the results of their microscopic observations on 

 animal tissues, which differ much from those of an excellent ob- 

 server, Dr Edwards of Paris. Dr Edwards maintains that the 

 elementary parts of all the tissues are globular ; whereas our 

 authors find that muscle, nerve, artery, and cellular mem- 

 brane, are fibrous. The brain appears to have a globular struc- 

 ture. The minute particles of milk are globular, but those of 

 the blood are circular, flattened, and transparent. 



37. Camelopard. — Hitherto natural historians have commit- 

 ted the same error with respect to the camelopard, that they 

 have committed with respect to the rhinoceros, the elephant, and 

 other large animals ; namely, the error of recognising only one 

 species. The camelopard now at the Museum at Paris, differs 

 in so many essential anatomical characters from the kind at the 

 Cape, that it cannot be doubted that there are at least two kinds. 

 The new one is called the Senaar Camelopard, from the name 

 of the country where it lived. A curious circumstance recently 



