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very remarkable nerves which are very distinct divisions or 

 the first pair, and opening chiefly into the palate, i)ehind 

 the incisores, by a channel which passes through the hole 

 denominated incisive by anatomists. This organ docs not 

 exist in man, and is more distinct in most oF the herbi- 

 vorous than of the carnivorous animals. It must be pre- 

 sumed thai it is connected wiih some of the faculties which 

 nature has granted to quadrupeds, and refused to our 

 species; such as the faculty of rejecting venomous sub- 

 stances, or of distinguishinii the sex and state of heat, &c. 



The particular history ol animals has been enriched with 

 manv important works and mterestintj; observations. 



M. de Humboldt has publ.shed the first volume of his 

 Observations on the Animals of America, in which he en- 

 ters not only upon difierent inquiries as to the condor, the 

 electrical eel, the crocodile, and manv other subjects which 

 we stated in our preceding analvsis ; but he has also given 

 several entirely ntw memoirs, particularly one upon the 

 apes of the new world, eleven or twelve species of which 

 only had been described by BufTon and Gmelin, but which 

 M. de Humboldt, by addiUi!; his own observations to those of 

 M. d'Azzara and GeoftVoySaintHilairejCxtends to forty-six. 



He has recently read to the Class another memoir in- 

 tended for his second volume, and in which he describes 

 • two new species of rattlesnakes which lie discovered in 

 Guyana. 



The tempests which agitated the sea last winter, drove 

 several large whales on shore on the French coast: the 

 Claris directed the information which they received on this 

 subject to be examined bv a commiitce consisting of MM. 

 Lacepede, GeoflVov Saint Hilaire, and Cuvier. 



These naturalists have remsTkcd, that several of these ani- 

 mals were little if at all kno^vn, and that the subject, as in- 

 teresting to the comnierce and lishtrics of France, deserved 

 the attention of Government. They have tiiven a descrip- 

 tion of the species cast ashore in great numbers near Saint 

 Brieux : M. Lemauot, naiuralist and apothec.irv of that 

 place, havin[r carefully coUecitd all the essential parts, it 

 was easy to discover among them a kind of dolphin, which 

 had escaj)ed the aHention ot all the methodical naturalists, 

 and" of which there was only one vcrv bad figure in Du- 

 hame!'- Treatise on Fishts. ' iii head is distinguished by a 

 globular toim, almost similar to an antique helmet, la 

 Jengih jt was nearly 20 feet. 



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