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XLVIII. Proceedings of Learned Societies, 



ROYAL SOCIETY. 



April I. J. HE Right Rev. Dr. Goodenough, Lord Bishop 

 of Carlisle, in tl.e chair. Sir Everard Home communicated 

 some additions and corrections to his paper on the Narval. 

 Since wrilinsi; the first part of it, he has had an opportunity 

 of examining the heads of both male and female narvals ; 

 he found in the male a tusk of four ftet long, and what he 

 calls a milk tooth imbedded in the substance of the skull 

 about nme inches long ; and in a young female, two milk 

 teeth eit^ht inches long likewise imbedded in the skull : 

 hence he concludes that the latter has two tusks of an 

 equal Icnsith, and that the former has a tusk and a milk 

 tooth. The tusks of the narval are hollow towards the 

 point, and solid where they are united by a process to the 

 skull. 



Dr. C. Wells communicated an account of Harriot Tresf, 

 a woman who has her left shoulder, arm and hand as black 

 a? the blacktst African, while all the rest of her skin is very 

 white. She is a native of Sussex ; and the account she 

 crives is, that her mother set her foot on a lobster during 

 her pregnancy. Dr. W. dticribes the appearance of her 

 skin, her blue eves, and general comeliness, with much mi- 

 nuteness, as she was a patient in the hospital to which he 

 is physician. He hence infers that blackness of skin is no 

 proof of difference of species, and alleges that the sun does 

 not blacken but rather whitens the skin. 



April S. Lord Morton in the chair. Conclusion of 

 Dr. Wells's paper. Tlie doctor indulged a variety of specu- 

 lations ; supposed with Voiney, that the Egyptians were 



negroes ; 



