73 On Hybernation. 
oth within, and about twenty inches under ground, 
The man who first discovered it, not knowing what it was, 
struck the ball with his spade, by which means it was bro- 
= to pieces, or the ball also would have been presented 
an long it had been under ground it is impossible 
tas [ never could observe any of these animals 
after the opines of September, I conceive they lay them- 
selves up sometime in that month or the beginning of Octo- 
ber when the frost becomes sharp, nor did 1 ever see them 
again before the last week in May or beginning of June. 
From their being enveloped in balls of clay, without any 
appearance of food, I conceive they sleep during the win- 
ter, and remain fer that Ses without sustenance.”—Lin. 
Soc. Trans. Vol. IV, 
‘Thus it appears that iife may be preserved in a torpid 
state without respiration, and this gives countenance to the 
frequently asserted fact that live toads — been taken 
from mpeaore ne other recent rocks. As a further ar- 
vou this fact, E will tha that Spallan- 
‘and serpents eer for three a ee and a 
39°. 
are told by ‘the same philosopher, that fat is not gt to 
_ -as some persons have supposed. r. Monroe’s 
hedge hog lost, during four months’ torpidity, only a oun- 
ces, and a tame marmot kept by Pallas, very fat, continued 
e all winter although exposed to the same severe 
either that rendered the rest of its species torpid in Rus- 
sia; but we lave other instances where every yi has 
been’ jn vaia exerted to keep animals from becom 
au animals become torpid when their food fails them, 
re thus preserved until accident shall bring them a 
i ly. Mr. Gough preserved a large garden snail three 
years without food in a perforated box. An operculum, 
was formed at the mouth of the shell, and it remained in this 
dry state dormant until the end of the time when it was re- 
vived by putting it in water at 70.° 
» The same gentleman relates an experiment which clear- 
ly proves that the cricket may be revived and induced from 
his winter retreat by the encouraging warmth of a fire. 
~The crickets,” he says, “were brought from a dis- 
tance, and let go in the room in the beginning of Sept. 
