76 TRICIHOLOGIA MAMMALIUM ; 
With 950 grains it stretched 24 of an inch, elasticity minus 11 
<> 1000 ao « 3 “ “ “ 15 
“1050 « «“ Bs s “ ee 
1,100) °« “ 40 “ “ “33 
SOOT TES YO; aie é 44 “ “ “a 23 
“ 1200 « z 44 «“ “ “98 
el B00mme “ 45 ‘ « rae 
e350) *"ssbroke: 
The pecuharity of these hairs is, that they separately partake of the characters of the 
three classes. ‘The oval shape, the curled direction and central coloring matter, of the first 
class ; the cylindrical shape, straight direction, and colored cortex, of the second class, 
and the undulated direction, black and red mixture of colors and colored fibres, of the third 
class. The very great discrepancy in their ductility, elasticity and tenacity is also very 
striking, as will be seen by the two above tables. 
Of the Classification of the Lower Animals by their Pile—We have a considerable 
amount of matter upon this subject, collected, but have not here room for its insertion.— 
(See titles ‘ Button,” and “ Coloring Matter.’’) 
