32 DIVISION I. VEKTEBKAL ANIMALS. — CLASS I. MAMMALIA. 



floor, rccorkcd the vial, nnd replaced the chair, and then resumed her 

 former seat. 



" In height, when .standing erect, and with the arms extended upward, 

 this animal mea.sured three feet six inches, and at the pcx'iod of her death, 

 although much emaciated, was supposed to weigh between forty-five and 

 fift}' pounds. The arms were very long, and when hanging down reached 

 nearly to the ankles. 



" She had been nuich exposed to the influence of cold and damp weather 

 during her tran.^portation, and the evening of her arrival was first observed 

 to be unwell ; on the succeeding morning her disease had assumed the char- 

 acter of an irregular intermittent fever, and medical advice was resorted to. 

 After lingering for some weeks, alternately better and worse, during which 

 time recourse was had to every expedient which art or ingenuity could de- 

 vise for her comfort and recovery, much to the regret of the few who saw 

 her, she died at the village of Ilarlcm, near New Yt)rk, on the 19th of July 

 fillowing. The death-bed scene, as rejjrescnted by those who were present, 

 nmst have been singularly aflecting. The account of it given by her keeper 

 is as follows : Early in the evening her extremities began to grow cold, and 

 at ten o'clock P. i\I. pulsation at the wrists had ceased. She appeared con- 

 scious of her approaching end, and dreaded it. She shivered and groaned 

 very much, and appeared to supplicate those around for assistance, often ex- 

 tending her arms to them and embracing them around the neck. She would 

 awake from a doze in great trepidation, and cling to the neck of her keeper, 

 where she would hang until sleep or exhaustion caused her to loosen her 

 hold. This was frccjuently repeated as long as her strength remained. After 

 violent struggles and much groaning, at tlu-ce o'clock A. M. she had ceased 

 to breathe. A careful anatomical examination of the body was made by 

 several medical gentlemen, by whom copious notes were taken, and the 

 several dimensions accurately noted. After the skin was removed, a cast 

 of the head and chest was taken in plaster of Paris ; over which the skin 

 was afterwards stretched, and the whole is now mounted, according to its 

 measurements during life, in good preservation, and is probably the most 

 natural and accurate stuffed specimen extant. The skeleton and such por- 

 tions of the body as were of particular interest were also preserved." 



The ]\Io\key on the Soitxdixg-boakd. — A clergyman in England 

 had a monkey, which became so much attached to his master that he desired 

 to accompany him wherever he went. Consequently, on the Sabbath it was 

 necessary to confine him in the house, as his presence in the church would 

 not conduce to the solemnities of the place. One Sunday, however, he 

 stole away, entered the church, and coni-ealed himself on the sounding- 

 board, diiectly over the clergyman's head. The tiermon having com- 



