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2d. A rrsdius, perfeft. 



3d. An ulna, or fore-arm, perfect, except that it is broken in two. 



4th. Three claws, and half a dozen other bones of the foot; but whether of a fore or 

 hinder foot, is not evident. 



About a foot in length of the refidue of the femur was found, it was fplit through the 

 middle, and in that ftate was ufed as a fupport for one of the fait petre vats ; this piece 

 was afterwards loft, but its meafures had been firft taken, as will be ftated hereafter. 



(To be continued.) 



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Letter from Dr. Beddoes ; nvlth a Propofal for a Courfe ef Leflures. 



To Mr. NICHOLSON. 

 SIR, 



XF you approve the fpirit of the undertaking, announced in the enclofed paper, pray 

 notice it in your Journal. I hope the example will be followed. Whether the number of 

 perfons, aware of the paramount importance of the fcience of animal nature, is at prefent 

 fufficient to enfure a reafonable compenfation to thofe who may attempt to explain it in 

 leftures, I am not uncertain. But this sera is faft approaching. I am perfuaded we (hall 

 fee inftitutions for this purpofe, fimilar to thofe which have long exifted, or been lately 

 formed for important, but very inferior purpofes. 



The fuccefs at firft experienced in the treatment of palfy by the gas, before fpoken of in 

 your Journal, continues. I repeat my undoubting conviftion, that the introdu£lion of 

 fa£litious air into medicine, will amply rccompence the pains that have been taken to briog 

 it about. I had engaged an able difledtor and draughtfman, for the purpofe of co-opera- 

 titig with Mr. Davy and myfelf in phyfiological refearches. But an opportunity offering 

 for his advantage, I of courfe relinquifhed my claims upon him ; I am much in want of a 

 fucceffor, and I wifti fome ingenious young man, accuftomed to manage the fcalpel and 

 the pencil, may be induced, by this notification, to join us in an enterprize which muft be 

 congenial to the feelings of every ardent cultivator of medical philofophy. I fliould make 

 the conditions as agreeable to him as it lies in my power to do. 



I am, Sir, 



Tout's, with great efteem, 



March 2, 1800. THOMAS BEDDOES; 



G 2 LeHure! 



