APPENDIX A. 



Notes from Baron Hammer-Purgstall's Paper 

 Das Kamel, in the Denkschriften der Kai- 



SERLICHEN AkADEMIE DER WiSSENSCHAFTEN. 



Phil. Hist. ; Classe VI. 



Baron Hammer's paper is founded wholly on oriental, 

 and chiefly on lexicographical and poetical authorities, 

 and gives therefore rather the philological and imagi- 

 native than the descriptive and historical view of the 

 subject. None of the numerous special Arabic works 

 on the camel, whose authors or titles are referred to by 

 Hammer, are found in any library in Europe ; but he 

 seems to have collected from lexicons, from the wide 

 range of Arabic poetry, and from other sources, all the 

 passages of Arabic literature, which throw light on the 

 relatives of this animal to Arab life. 



Although, therefore, it cannot be said that many new 

 facts of physiological interest are brought to light by the 

 portion of the Essay now published, it is highly prob- 

 able, that the original texts which are to follow, and 

 which, as Hammer says, " contain much that is new to 

 the naturalist," will, to use his own language, " show how 

 natural history and physiology may be advanced by 

 philology and the knowledge of words." 



The paper is divided into four principal sections, 



