ALLEGED SEA-APE. 



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a Simla Marina^ which he states was found in the 

 Red Sea. Aldrovandi* copies this, and supplies a 

 representation not more rude than apocryphal. A 

 second, still more singular, he gives from Gesner. 



It was only after the foregoing pages had gone 

 to press that the following account of the distribu- 

 tion of the olfactory nerve attracted our notice ; and 

 it bears so directly on the somewhat obscure sub- 

 ject of the development of the nervous system, and 

 more especially of the senses, of the Seal group, and 

 so completely confirms the sentiments we ventured 

 to express on the point, p. 69, that we deem it ex- 

 pedient, even here, to introduce the accompanying 

 wood-cut and explanation, derived, we believe, from 



* De PUcibus, ? 405. 



