HIBERNATION AND ALLIED STATES IN ANIMALS 87 
the conclusion that this exposure is injurious to a 
hibernating animal, and that it had something to do 
with the poor condition in which my specimen was 
found in the spring of the year in which he died. 
Before discussing the true nature of the phenomena 
of the winter sleep, I call attention to certain cases of 
allied nature. 
Such frequent references as we find to the hibernation 
of swallows deserve some consideration. 
It is also stated that in Scotland sheep have been 
found alive after being buried for weeks beneath the 
snow ; and Dr Frank Miller of Burlington, Vt., reported, 
when a student, to the Society for the Study of Com- 
parative Psychology at Montreal, that hogs had been 
found alive after being accidentally imprisoned below 
the surface for several weeks longer than it seemed 
possible for them to survive under ordinary circum- 
stances, so that it would appear they had been in a 
condition of hibernation or some such state. 
Turning to the human subject: We have all read of 
instances in man of “suspended animation,” or “ trance.” 
The case of Fakirs in India having been buried alive, 
exhumed, and resuscitated after months, is attested by 
such evidence as it is difficult to set aside, however 
hard to credit. 
Mr D. W. Ross, a student in medicine of M‘Gill 
University, has gathered the facts of a peculiar case in 
so far as they are now obtainable. The individual in 
question was known as “Sleepy Joe,” a farmer by 
occupation. He was married and had several children, 
one of whom, a girl, had the same drowsy appearance 
as her father. This man would sleep almost constantly 
for several weeks, awakening, however, to attend to 
Nature’s calls and to take food. He would at times 
awake more fully and then set to work, whether it was 
day or night, and almost incessantly labour as if to 
