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The kiang, or wild horse, is often confounded with the gorkkar, 

 or wild ass, but the kiang lives in the high cold regions of the 

 Thibet mountains, and the gorkkar in the warm sandy regions of 

 the Sind and of Belouchistan. The kiang is found in large num- 

 bers nearly in the same localities as the yak ; we have not found 

 them over 18,600 feet. The region where they live is one of the 

 most interesting and remarkable upon our globe; altliough free 

 from snow in summer, these regions are deserts the whole year. 

 Their vegetation is less than that on the desert between Suez and 

 Cairo of Egypt, but, nevertheless, numerous troops of large quad- 

 rupeds, besides those we have mentioned, are found there, and 

 also numerous kinds of wild sheep, antelopes, and a small num- 

 ber of the dog race, of foxes and hares. Dr. Earth says to me 

 recently, that he considers the asses he saw in Africa as identical 

 with the gorkkars of the Sind. I will now endeavor to explain 

 the history of the fabulous licorne (unicorn). It has been de- 

 scribed by those celebrated travellers in eastern Thibet, Messrs. 

 Plue and Gabet. On a wild sheep is found, 7iot one /wrn, but a 

 double one enveloped in a sort of sheath, resembling two fingers 

 in one glove finger. 



After the reading of this paper Mons. Kaufmann stated that 

 attempts have been made in Prussia by our affiliated societies to 

 cross the ass with Asiatic pure blood stallions, but have not yet 

 succeeded- 



EGYPT AND HER PROGRESS. 

 His Royal Highness Prince Halim, to whom we are grateful, 

 extends our views there. He is governor of Soudan for his brother 

 the viceroy, and has formed at Karthoum, a thousand leagues 

 south of Alexandria, a committee of acclimation. We have in 

 Marseilles and Paris specimens from him of the breeds of oxen 

 and sheep of Soudan, he is seconded by our devoted associate 

 His Excellency Koenig Bey. 



A NEW REMEDY FOR THE POTATO ROT. 



Solon Robinson — I hold in my hand an article from The Leeds 

 (England) Mercury^ which I will read, as it gives an entirely new 

 theory for the prevention of the potato disease, so easily tried that 



