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With rc^ui-d to Bkekdino, Nunn informs us as to tlie detail in the 

 Moutgomery District of the Punjab. Thefomalos aro not put to 

 the male until they are three years oldj they "come in season" 

 iu March; one will produce nine or ten calves at intervals of two 

 years, the calf being- carried 12A months. The calf sucks for one 

 year; he is allowed only very small quantities of milk for the first 

 fifteen days, and afterwards to please himself as to amount, ho 

 begins to browse when about three weeks old. When he is weaned 

 the udder of the dam is tied up in a bag called '' Jali.^^ The 

 OAvncr milks half the uddor twice a day and leaves the rest for 

 the calf; a good gauda gives about 12 seers per diem. This 

 milk does not give butter, it is laxative in its effects on man and 

 used in cases of enlarged spleen, but is the best kind for rearing 

 foals on, as the Arabs also have observed. 



The natural history of the camel is singular in this important 

 respect that nowhere in the present day is he known to occur in 

 the wild state. The two forms of camclus find tlicii* nearest Zoo- 

 logical allies iu the Llamas of the new world but, in conformation 

 of their limbs especially, they prove interesting from an anato- 

 mico- physiological point of view as alfording transitional charac- 

 ters between the horse and the ox. There is, perhaps, no animal 

 in the world which can be looked on as domesticated more 

 thoroughly than the camel, he lives among men and in company 

 with human beings only, he is mentioned in the earliest written 

 records of the race of mankind. The Chinese have some literature 

 of the camel and his diseases, Arabian works ( ancient and modern) 

 deal with his management and uses in a semi-religious manner 

 from which the facts can be extracted only after the most elaborate 

 research. The French, with their usual enlightened policy in 

 matters of science, on occupation of Algeria called on experienced 

 veterinary officers of the army for rej)orts on the diseases of 

 camels among other beasts of burden used in the recently con- 

 quered country and thus much valuable information has been ob- 

 tained and recorded, probably that which from a scientific point 

 of view is the most valuable available on Cameline Pathology. 

 The records made by ofiicers, veterinary and non-veterinary of 

 the army in the Indian empire are of the greatest value from a 

 pratical point of view but they are nuich scattered in jieriudicals, 

 pamphlets, and inaccessible works of reference ; some of the few 



