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Orleans in the spring of 1878, and Dr. Sanford E. Chaille, of that city, 

 first called the attention of the writer to it, and likewise sent a photo- 

 graph from which the cut was made. This same horse was subse- 

 quently brought to the North, and a few days since was on exhibition 

 at New Haven, Connecticut, where the writer examined him with 

 some care. The animal is of small size, about ten years old, and is 

 said to have been foaled in Cuba. He is known among showmen as 

 the 'eight-footed Cuban horse.' With the exception of the extra 

 digits he is well formed. The four main hoofs are of the ordinary 

 form and size. The extra digits are all on the inside, and correspond 

 to the index-finger of the human hand. They are less than half the 

 size of the principal toes, and none of them reach the ground. 



" Among the instances of recent polydactyle horses described to the 

 writer by those who have seen them are two of special interest. One 

 of these was a colt with three toes on one fore-foot, and two on the 

 other. The animal recently died in Ohio. Another is a mare, raised 

 in Indiana, and is still living, which is said to have three toes on each 

 fore-foot, and a small extra digit on each hind-foot. In regard to 

 the latter animal, the writer hopes soon to have more definite infor- 

 mation. 



" Besides the instances mentioned above of extra digits in place in 

 the existing horse, there are many cases on record of true monstrosi- 

 ties, as, for example, additional feet or limbs attached to various por- 

 tions of the body. Such deformities now admit of classification and 

 explanation, but need not be considered in the present discussion." 



SKETCH OF HEINEICH WILHELM DOYE. 



By FREDERICK HOFFMANN. 



THE veteran savants who inaugurated the great advances in modern 

 physical research are passing away, one after another, leaving their 

 achievements for completion to the succeeding generation, and their 

 imperishable fame to the records of human history. Foremost among 

 the centers of exact and productive inquiry and learning ranked the 

 University of Berlin, founded in the years of Prussia's deepest hu- 

 miliation at the hands of the great Corsican adventurer, out of the 

 royal motive " to raise the down-trodden nation to strength and great- 

 ness by intellectual and mental vigor and virtue." Among the brilliant 

 array of famous scholars of the first period of that university were 

 Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt, Leopold von Buch, Carl Rit- 

 ter, Fichte, Plegel, Enke, Boekh, Kunth, Link, Ehrenberg, Johannes 

 Mttller, E. Mitcherlich, Heinrich and Gustav Rose, Poggendorf, Dove, 



