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MISCELLANEOUS. 



NOTE RELATIVE TO DR. WESTENDORP's MEMOIR ON A NEW SPECIES OF 

 EPILOBIUM, ERRONEOUSLY PUBLISHED AS MR. W. H. WHITE's. 



From what we have just learnt with regard to this paper, it is our 

 unwelcome duty immediately to make the following statement. A 

 translation of it was published in our 1st volume, p. 208, as an ori- 

 ginal paper by Mr. W. H. White, read before the Botanical Society 

 of London on March 2nd, 1838, and communicated to us from the 

 Secretary of the Society. It is, however, we are informed, merely 

 a verbal translation of Dr. Westendorp's memoir, which appeared in 

 the Bulletin of the Brussels Royal Academy of Sciences for Novem- 

 ber 1836. As this fact has been publicly denounced in the Bulletin 

 for March last, and severely reprobated in a publication by Dr. Wes- 

 tendorp, a regard to justice, as well as to the reputation of our Journal, 

 calls on us to state all that has come to our knowledge, and to inquire 

 what explanation can be given. 



Should this have happened through any mistake, we still must 

 think that Mr. W. H. White ought, in justice to Dr. Westendorp, 

 to the Botanical Society, and to ourselves, to have warned us of the 

 error as soon as possible after it had occurred. 



BLOOD CORPUSCLES IN THE MAMMALIA. 



Mr. Gulliver has been lately occupied in some observations on the 

 blood disks of mammalia, of which the following are some of the re- 

 sults : 



In five Australasian animals the corpuscles have the form and size 

 most common in mammals, their diameters varying from ^{/^^th to 

 y^^QQth of an inch. These Australasian animals are the Perameles 

 lagotis, Petaurus Sciurus, Macropus Bennettii, Dasyvrus UrsinuSy and 

 D. Viverrinus. 



In reference to the interesting discovery by M. Mandl of the oval 

 blood corpuscles of the Dromedary, Mr. Gulliver has found the blood- 

 disks of the Auchenia Vicugna, A. Paco, and A. Glama, also very di- 

 stinctly elliptical. In the Vicugna they are rather smaller than in 

 the other species. 



In the Musk Deer {Tragalus Javanicus) Mr. Gulliver observes 

 that the blood disks are smaller than those, hitherto described, of 

 any other mammal whatever. In the Tragalus, the disks, though very 

 distinct in form, measure on an average yg^on*^ °^ ^^ ^"^^ ^^^Y > 

 but many variations in size are to be seen, from jj^j-^js *^ *o Wtttt*^ 

 of an inch in diameter. 



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