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intruder and eventually killed it. Mr. E. all the time suffered 

 intense pain, and presently the wounded finger, then the hand, 

 and ultimately the whole arm up to the shoulder swelled to a 

 serious extent. The symptoms usually following snake bite also 

 set in, and after a day or two Mr. E.'s state became so serious as 

 to alarm his friends for his safety, and Dr. G. having heen sent 

 for, he applied ammonia and the usual remedies against snake 

 poison, and we are glad to learn that Mr. E. has now entirely 

 recovered." 



In 1876 Creighton,* writing on the Mammary Glands of 

 Echidna and Ornithorhynchus, refers to the femoral gland in the 

 f ( )llowing terms : — 



" The mammary gland is found only in the female Ornitho- 

 rhynchus and Echidna. But the males of Ornithorhynchus 

 and Echidna have also a gland peculiar to them, which resembles 

 the mamma in being a sexual gland, and in being subject to 

 periods of expansion and functional activity from season to 

 season. This gland is the glandula femoralis, situated on each 

 side of the back of the thigh, and discharging by a long duct 

 which runs down the leg and opens on the plantar aspect at 

 the 'spur.' There is a certain probability of this gland being 

 the homologue of the female gland, and when the very singular 

 <lifferences between the mamma? in the male and female Cetaceans 

 are observed, this probability becomes much stronger. I am 

 indebted to Prof. Flower for pointing out to me the peculiarity 

 of the mamma in the male porpoise as shown in preparations 

 jnade by himself. Instead of there being a pair of ducts, one on- 

 each side, as in the female, there is only one duct which opens 

 l)y a round pore without a nipple in the middle line of the body 

 at a point much further back than in the female. Now by those 

 two circumstances — the singleness of the duct and its caudal 

 position — the mamma of the male porpoise is brought within 

 reach of comparison with the femoral gland of the male duckbill. 

 This is nothing more than a curious suggestion ; but if the 



* Journ. Anat. &, Phys. Vol. xi. p. 29. 



