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to Corsini), and which is not to be confounded with that which Herr von 

 Boguslawski has named the comet of Aristotle (seen when Asteus was Archon, 

 01. 101, 4; Aristot. Meteor, lib. i. cap. 6, 10 ; vol. i. p. 395, Ideler; and 

 supposed to be identical with the comets of 1695 aud 1843?) ; and also the 

 mention of the destruction of the temple at Ephesus, as well as of a lunar 

 rainbow, seen on two occasions in the course of fifty years. (Compare Schneider 

 ad Aristot. Hist, de Animalibus, Vol. i. p. il. xlii. ciii. and cxx. ; Ideler ad 

 Aristot. Meteor. Vol. I. p. x. ; and Humboldt, Asie Cent. T. ii. p. 168.) We 

 know that the " History of Animals," was written later than the " Meteorolo- 

 gica," since the last-named work alludes to the former as soon to follow. 

 (Meteor, i. 1, 3 ; and iv. 12, 13.) 



(**) p. 158. The fire animals named in the text, and especially- the 

 hippelaphus (horse-stag with a long mane), the hippardion, the Bactrian 

 camel, and the buffalo, are adduced by Cuvier as proofs of the Historia 

 Auimalium having been written by Aristotle at a later period. (Hist, des 

 Sciences Nat. T. i. p. 154.) Cuvier, in the fourth volume of the Recherches 

 gur les Ossemens fossiles, 1823, p. 40-43 and p. 502, distinguishes between 

 two Asiatic stags with manes, which he calls Cervus hippelaphus and Cervut 

 aristotelis. At first he regarded the Cervus hippelaphus, of which he had seen 

 a living example, and of which Diard had sent him skins and antlers from 

 Sumatra, as Aristotle's hippelaphus from Aracliosia, (Hist, de Animal., ii. 2, 

 $ 3, and 4, T. i. p. 43-44, Schneider) : subsequently he judged that a stag's head 

 sent to him from Bengal by Duvaucel, and the drawing "of the entire large 

 animal, agreed still better with the Stagirite's description of the hippelaphus ; 

 and this stag, which is indigenous in the mountains of Sylhet in Bengal, in 

 Ncpaiil, and in the country east of the Indus, then received the name of 

 Cervus aristotelis. If, in the same chapter in which Aristotle treats 

 generally of animals with manes, he names together with the horse-stag 

 (Equicervus), the Indian Guepard or hunting tiger (Felisjnbata). Schneider 

 (T. iii. p. 66) considers the reading irapbiov to be preferable to that of TO 

 anraplkov. The latter reading, as Pallas also thinks, (Spicileg. Zool. fasc. i. 

 p. 4), would be best interpreted to mean the giraffe. If Aristotle had himself 

 seen the Guepard, and not merely heard it described, how can we suppose 

 that he would have failed to notice non-retractile claws in a feline animal ? 

 It is equally surprising how Aristotle, who is always so accurate, if, as 

 August Wilhelm von Schlegel maintains, he had a menagerie near his 

 residence at Athens, and had himself dissected an elephant which had been 

 taken at Arbela, could have failed to describe a small opening near the temples 



