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for example, must of course have been quite independent in 

 time and place of occurrence though due no doubt to a like 

 cause. What that cause may be is, I believe, quite unknown. 

 In conclusion I must express my thanks to Dr. Annandale 

 for permission to examine the collection of Rodents in the 

 Indian Museum, and also to B. Pranaba P. Sen Gupta, one of 

 my students who first drew my attention to the subject and 

 dissected a number of our local Rodents, at my suggestion, in 

 order to ascertain the state of the biliary apparatus. 





