A 
REMARKABLE PHYSIOLOGICAL FACT. 
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A Spanzex bitch, belonging to Mr. Robert Scholes, 
of Cheetham Hill, near Manchester, in the autumn 
of the year 1830, brought up a kitten and a fawn of 
the Fallow Deer, which she attended to as assidu- 
ously as if they had been her own offspring. In- 
stances of animals, when deprived of their young, 
attaching themselves to the progeny of other species, 
endowed with physical and mental powers differing 
widely from their own, are of frequent occurrence ; 
and the warmth of affection usually manifested to- 
wards the nurslings on such occasions proves how 
deeply the parental feelings are implanted in the 
inferior orders of animated beings. I have known 
the Domestic Cat, for example, take charge of young 
Squirrels and young Hares, which, but for the 
powerful influence of this active principle, would, in 
all probability, have fallen victims to feline voracity. 
But what renders the case before us peculiarly in- 
teresting to the physiologist is the fact that the bitch, 
which was only about fourteen months old, had never 
