THE iosTo;si;. 



" April 19. Timotty, wio bad withdrawfi himself for several 

 days, appeqis. 



" March X5, Tipiotljy coipes forth ftnd W^ghs 61b. §|pz. 



"May 9. Tjmotjiy e^Aa .dandelion leaves ^n^ stalJEp. H? 

 swallows his food almost whole. 



" Sept. 19. Timothy forsakes the fimit wall and retires to 

 the laxprel edge, where he will lay himself up hereafter. 



"April 14 "Sinftothy has become very ^ert and marches 

 about the wal£)>. 



" Sept. 18. Tjmothy qats vor?.ciou8ly. 



" Deo. 3. Timothy has lajd himself under IJi^ hedge against 

 Benbam's yard in a very comfortable, snug maiuner. A thiojt 

 tuft of grass shelters his back and he TTiU have the warmth 

 of the winter's sun. 



" Sept. 29. Timothy eats grass. Token that the wea,ther is 

 warm. 



" June 4. Timothy took his usual rambles, and could not be 

 jouBned within the limits of the garden. His pursuits, which 

 are of the amorous kind, transport him beyond the bounds of 

 his usual gravity at this season. He was missing for some 

 days but found at last near the upper inalt-house. 



" Sept. 17. When we call 'loudly through the speaking- 

 trumpet to Timothy he does not seem to regard the voice. 



" June 20. We put Timothy into a tub of water, and found 

 that he sank gradually and walked at the bottom of the tub. 

 He seemed quite out of his element and was much dismayed. 



" April 19. Timothy enlarges his breathing-hole and bits up 

 the earth. 



" April 21. Timothy heaves up the earth and puts out his 

 head. 



" April 22. Timothy comes forth and walks about. 



"May 2. Timothy marches about and eats a piece of 

 cucumber-paring. 



" Nov. 27. Timothy sleeps in the fruit border under the wall, 

 covered with a hencoop, in which is a good armful of straw. 

 Here he will lie warm, secure, and dry. His back is partly 

 covered with mould." 



Darwin, in describing the reptiles • common to the Galapagos 

 Archipelago, makes mention of a gigantic tortoise found at a 

 place called Chatham Island. Sis hundred men, he declares, 

 might subsist on them without any other provision, while they 

 are so fat and dehciously flavoured as to equal the best bred 

 chickens. These tortoises, he says, when moving towards any 



