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do not recolle& to have met with it in any liquid 
- with a tendency to putrefaction, 
The horn of the wheel animal is fituated on 
the upper part, and is not eafily obferved unlefs 
when the animal is juft about to make its ftep. 
P. 163, Note-—Before terminating this work, 
it is proper to correct what is probably an error. 
It is poffible, that what I conceive a new {pecies 
of floth is not fo. Some points in its hiftory have 
already been attended to by naturalifts of great 
eminence. 
In the French tranflation of Fue/sli’s Archives 
of the Hiftory of Infects, Winterthour 1794, there 
is a memoir on thefe minute animals by the ce- 
lebrated Muller. His obfervations coincide al- 
moft exaétly with mine; and he feems to have 
had the advantage of a number for examination. 
He obferves, in the firft place, that * Eichorn 
© and, Goetze at the fame time difcovered the ani- 
‘ mal, but the former afcribed ten feet to it inftead 
‘ of eight; and the name they beftowed upon it 
‘was the UrsLer (Our/slet eu Petit ours), from 
‘ the fuppofed refemblance to a bear.’ 
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