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ZOOLOGY. 



7. Height of the Patagonians. — An officer of Captain King's 

 expedition communicated to us the following interesting notice. 



Measurement of the largest Paiagonian in a Tribe of about 150 in 

 number. 



Feet. Inches. 



Height, 6 2 



Circumference of the chest, - - 3 11 



Do. of the loins, .... 3 5 



Do. of the pelvis, - - - - 3 10 



The limbs in this man were finely formed ; but the muscles 

 were not so strongly marked, and did not exhibit those eleva- 

 tions, when thrown into action, so much as in stout sailors, or 

 other athletic Europeans, who have been accustomed to muscu- 

 lar exertion. There was seemingly, in the whole of them, of 

 both sexes, a thickish layer of adipose substance under the 

 common integuments, covering the whole of the body, which 

 seemed to fill up the hollows of the muscles, seen so distinct- 

 ly in most hard-working persons. The shortest man in their 

 party was five feet ten inches and a half high ; the generality 

 of them appeared to be about six feet, with large bodies. The 

 women, I thought, were larger in proportion to the men than is 

 observed in civilised society. 



8. Hint to Practical Anatomists. — A dead child was brought 

 to the dissecting-room, and had already been some time in 

 the amphitheatre, when the anatomist set about dissecting it. 

 But at the moment of operating, he fortunately thought of in- 

 flating the lungs for a few moments. At the end of two or three 

 minutes heat returned, the circulation began to be established, 

 the heart beat, and presently the child revived, and was sent back 

 to its parents. A similar event happened to an anatomist of 

 Lyons, who communicated it to the French Academy. In re- 

 porting these cases to the Academy of Sciences, M. Julia de 

 Fontanelle remarked how conclusive they are in favour of the 

 advantage that might be derived from insufflation, particularly 

 in new-bom children, provided always the air be introduced in- 

 to the lungs with precaution. From the accounts published 

 of the monstrous, fearful, and hitherto uniraagined murders 

 lately perpetrated at Edinburgh, it would almost seem, that, if 

 some of the bodies had been treated with the view of resusci- 



