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Miscellaneous Intelligence. 



Mammalia. — " Mr. Babhage has drawn up a table, to which we direct the 

 attention of travellers and residents in foreign countries, calculated to express 

 in columns all the properties of Mammalia capable of indiction by number. 

 Similar tables may be easily formed, so as to include the distinctive charac- 

 ters of the other vertebrated animals; and where specimens cannot be 

 transmitted home whole, a correct statement of the particulars mentioned, 

 will enable the Zoologist to determine, with considerable precision, the 

 zoological characters ol an animal from stuffed specimens. The particulars 

 detailed, form the titles of columns in which the dimensions &e. are ex- 

 pressed." 



OBSERVATIONS. 



Number of inspirations per minute. 



■ 

 i 



• Vertebra. 



Name. 

 Length from tip of tail to 



end of nose, 

 Height from ground to 



top of shoulder, 

 length of tail. ^ Male. 



Length of head. 

 Greatest breadth of head 

 Weight of Animal. 

 Weight of skeleton. 

 Length from tip of tail to 



end of nose. ^ 



Height from ground to top £ 



of shoulder. f 



Length of tail. IVuiale. 



Length of head. 

 Greatest breadth of head. 

 Weight of Animal. 

 Weight of skeleton. 

 Number ofManinuT. 

 Period of Gestation, in days. 

 Period of blindness after birth. 

 Period at which they cease suckin 

 Period of maturity. 

 Period of old age. 

 Number of young at a birth. 

 Proportion of males to females. 

 Animal heat. Thermometer of 

 Number of pulsations per minute. 



Terrestrial shell animals may be carried alire great distances.— Mr. 

 Guilding has found, that the terrestrial testaceous mollusca will travel to a 

 very great distance in a living state, even in the tropics, if packed in saw- 

 dust. He has lately dispatched tin boxes perforated on all sides, and filled 

 with wet moss and mud, in which he hopes to obtain alive the aquatic 

 mollusca, which swarm in the waters of the mighty Oronooka, and the 

 canals and ponds of the neighbouring colonies. — Zooloqical Journal. 

 No. XIV. 



GEOGRAPHY. 



African Geography.*— Half a century employed in almost fruitless at- 

 tempts to clear up the doubts on the mysterious subject of Africa, and to 

 acquire, at length, a certain knowledge of that country, has by no means 

 diminished the ardour of the first researches. The more the end has seemed 

 to escape our attainment, the more has the curiosity of Europe been 

 awakened on the subject ; and even now, that the science of Geography has 

 experienced so many irreparable losses among the intrepid explorers of the 

 Alrican continent, that curiosity has become more eager than ever. In vain 

 have the successive discoveries of travellers revealed the almost insur- 

 mountable obstacles opposed by those regions to the most determined 



* Extracted from "A brief notice respecting the progress and present 

 state of the Discoveries in the Interior of Africa," by M. Jomard, President 

 of the Central Committee of the Geographical Society of Paris; read by that 

 gentleman at the General Meeting in 1824. 



Number of species known. 



Number of toes or claws. 



Divisions of boof. 



Facial angle. 



Proportion of weight of cerebrum 



to that of body. 

 Proportion of weight of cerebrum 



to cerebellum. 

 Length of intestinal canal. 

 Proportion of intestinal canal to. 



length of body. 

 Proportion of intestinal canal to its 



circumference. 

 Nature of food. 

 Grinders. } 

 Canine teeth. > Upper jaw. 

 Incisive. 3 



Srinders. } 

 Canine teeth. > Lower jaw. ( ' 

 Incisive. 3 



Structure of grinders. 

 Total number. 

 Number of Cervical. 

 Number of Dorsal. 

 Number of Lumbar. 

 Number of Sacral. 

 Number of Caudal. 



