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The various organs are described as modified throughout 
the different classes of animals, (beginning with Man, the 
BovAcvrixoy povov) in nearly the same order as that after- 
- wards adopted by Cuvier. 
As specimens of the interesting matter treated of in the 
work, Dr. Osborne selected the animal nature of sponges ; 
the ages of various animals ; the movements of the nautilus, 
(the same doubt existing in the author’s mind as to the 
origin of the shell, which has divided the opinions of Messrs. 
Blainville, Owen, Gray, and Mad. Power, within the last 
year;) the localities of animals, as affording data for ascer- 
taining the rate at which they have extended themselves 
over the globe; particulars relating to artificial incubatien 
as practiced in Egypt ; the management of cattle ; a mode 
of fattening hogs with rapidity, by commencing with a 
fast of three days; the mohair goat located in Cilicia, as 
at present; hybernation and migrations of various animals 
and fish ; description of the fisher-fish (lophius piscatorius,) 
and of the torpedo, with the proof that they catch their 
prey in the extraordinary manner described; many inge- 
nious modes of taking partridge, and of fishing detailed ; the 
friendships which have been perpetuated between different 
classes of animals,—as the trochilus and the crocodile, 
the pinna muricata and the cancer pinnotheres, the crow 
and the heron; their animosities, as between the crow 
and owl; the diseases of animals traced throughout the 
series, extending even to fish; hydrophobia described, as 
being communicated by the bite of the rabid dog to all ani- 
mals except man, which appears to be the correct statement 
with respect to hot climates, and not (as has been re- 
‘presented by some modern travellers,) an entire absence of 
the disease. 
These detached specimens of the contents of this work fur- 
nish, however, a very inadequate idea of its real value. There 
are in it whole sections, the separate sentences of which, 
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