196 Scientijic Intelligence. — Zoology. 



tation, there was a chance — it is true a feeble one — of the 

 younger and healthier individuals being restored to life. At 

 all events, the sickening, revolting, and heart-rending scenes 

 disclosed in the late investigations — scenes which would have 

 struck with horror the most debased in the darkest times of 

 unchristian Europe — ought to sharpen the attention of those 

 connected with the business of practical anatomy. Our national 

 character must not be stained, nor public feeling outraged, by 

 the irregularities of any profession, however useful and im- 

 portant it may be. 



9. The Giraffe and Unicorn. — M. Eduard Riippell, who 

 has resided during six successive years in the north-eastern re- 

 gions of Africa, has lately pubhshed several numbers of a work 

 illustrative of the natural history of these regions. To our 

 knowledge of the Camelo-pardalis Giraffa he has added consi- 

 derably. He obtained in Nubia and Kordofan five specimens, 

 two of which were males and three females. He regards the 

 horns as constituting the principal generic character, they being- 

 formed by distinct bones, united to the frontal and parietal 

 bones by a very obvious suture, and having throughout the 

 same structure with the other bones. In both sexes one of these 

 abnormal bones is situated on each branch of the coronal suture, 

 and the male possesses an additional one placed more anteriorly, 

 and occupying the middle of the frontal suture. The anoma- 

 lous position of this appendage furnishes a complete refutation 

 of the theory of Camper with regard to the unicorn, that such 

 an occurrence was contrary to nature, and proves at least the 

 possibility of the existence of such an animal. M. Riippell 

 also obtained some information in Kordofan respecting this 

 much debated animal. It was stated to be of the size of a small 

 horse, of the slender make of the gazelle, and furnished with 

 a long straight slender horn in the male, which was wanting in 

 the female. According to the statements made by various per- 

 sons, it inhabits the deserts to the sovith of Kordofan, is un- 

 commonly fleet, and comes only occasionally to the Koldagi 

 Helve Mountain, on the borders of Kordofan. 



10. Female Child xcith Tj€o Heads.— M. Geotfroy St Hilaire 

 presented to the Academy of Sciences of Paris, on 25th May 

 1829. a drawing of a monster, which was living at Turin in the 



