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tinues motionless, wliile the legs undergo a constant but languid 

 movement to and fro, until the animal has ceased to exist. The 

 other state is more violent, w^ith periodical paroxysms ; about 

 the fourth day they will snap every kind of fastening, and attack 

 and gore all who approach them, and continue thus until palsy of 

 the joints supervenes. On dissection the gall-bladder is discovered 

 filled to excess with muddy yellowish-green coloured bile. " In 

 Horses" the rabies increases to such an extent on the second or 

 third day, that no person or creature can approach them without 

 being bit and kicked in the most frightful manner. " In Pigs" only 

 one instance was known, and the symptoms were very violent ; an 

 end was put to existence ; and by the disgraceful conduct of a 

 butcher, the carcase was exposed for sale, and cut up and disposed 

 of ; no mischief, however, was heard of as arising from the consump- 

 tion of it. ** In Sheep " also, only one instance was known arising 

 from a bite ; the animal kept quiet and dejected, but it was killed 

 before the termination of the disease was seen. The author has 

 known the milk of rabid animals taken, and in two instances the 

 flesh of rabid oxen eaten, without any bad effects. Pie has also 

 known the bite of decidedly rabid animals not to produce any bad 

 eifects, and he argues from this, that with mankind a predisposition 

 to Hydrophobia very rarely exists. (This paper is a translation from 



Hecker's Annalen.) 



Botany. 



I. An attempt to ascertain characters of the Botanical Alliances ; 

 by Sir Edward Ffrench Bromhead, Bart. II. Description of several 

 new or rare Plants which have lately flowered in the neighbourhood of 

 Edinburgh, chiefly in the Royal Botanic Garden ; by Dr. Graham, 

 Professor of Botany. Three plants only are mentioned, Aristolochia 

 saccata, Batemannia Calleyi, and Rhododendron albiflorum, the last 

 reared from seed sent from British America by Mr. Drumraond. In 

 speaking of the Aristolochia, Dr. Graham notices a curious property 

 in the pouches, the reason of which is left undetermined, and which 

 would be well worthy of the attention of those who delight in tracing 

 design in the structures of natural productions. " The ensnaring of 

 insects by plants is observed in many cases, its use disputed, some- 

 times I think misunderstood, and its benevolence in the arrangement 

 of Nature considered equivocal. One thing is obvious, it demon- 

 strates premeditation and design in the configuration of parts. The 

 large heavy pouch in the middle of the tube necessarily keeps the 

 flower pendulous, and its throat erect. Having removed from the 

 plant one of the racemes for examination, I laid this down on the 



