1()(3 TRICIIOLOOIA MAMMALIUM: 



Goldsmith says that it is observable among quadrupeds, as well as among ihe human 

 species itself, that a thin, sparing diet is apt to produce hair; children that have been 

 ill-fed, famished dogs and horses are more hairy than others whose food has been more 

 plentiful. [!] (Nat. Hist, of Man, 2 v., p. 106.) 



The Hindoos undertake to enumerate the hairs upon one of our species. A woman who, 

 upon the death of her husband, (says Unggira,) ascends the burning pile along with him, 

 is exalted to heaven for as many years as there are hairs on the human body, that 

 is, 35,000,000. 



OF HAIR GROWING IN TUFTS. Hairs (which are seen upon trie foetus) are rarely isolated, 

 but are found disposed of, sometimes in duplicates, sometimes in triplicates, and at others 

 in quadruplicates, or even quintubles. (Eschricbt in Muller, Arch., 1837, p. 43.) And 

 it is very probable that the same arrangement may exist in regard to the hair of the lower 

 animals; for while examining the skin of a Russian Dog, tanned with the hair on, with 

 another object in view, we observed that the follicles were in triplicates. We have also 

 observed that the fur of the Mole grows in tufts, and so does the wool of the Bushman boy, 

 as has been noticed. (See post, wool staple.) And it is also beautifully shown in the skin 

 of the Platyphus Ornithorinchus. (See Chapter I.)* 



We have, in our cabinet, a specimen of hair which grew in tufts upon a gentleman's 

 shoulder. 



OF THE RAPID GROWTH OF PILE. Withof found that the beard grows a line in a week, 

 or 4 inches in a year, which, in a life of fifty years, would make upwards of 16 feet of 

 beard. 



We found the beard to grow, upon a male adult of 60, in good health, J- - of an inch in 

 24 hours. 



Absalom polled his hair once a year, " because it was heavy upon him," and it weighed 

 200 shekels, after the king's weight, f 



Hair is said to grow more rapidly in summer than in winter. (Diet. Des. Sci. Med., 

 v. 43, p. 496.) Sed qusere? 



The fur upon the abdomen of amphibious fur-bearing animals is the finest, and that on 

 the back is the coarsest. With land fur-bearing animals, it is the very reverse. 



The finest wool is on the back of the sheep, and is called "picklock." 



The specimens of Saxony wool, presented to us by the King of Saxony, represent the 

 filaments from the shoulders, the back, under the belly, the tail and the legs so that from 

 the specimens you may form an opinion of the whole fleece. 



OF THE REGENERATION OF PILE. Of the fall and regeneration of hair in the foetus, we 



* Hair of the limbs of the body of some of the Papuans, of Darnly Island, grow in small tufts. (Latham, Nat. Hist, of 

 Var., &c., 215.) 



t Shekel, ancient Hebrew weight, 0.032086 pounds. (Alexander.) 



