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wild Caninse are represented in the mountains by the so called 

 wild dogs, not feral Pariars, which exist only in the imagina- 

 tion of H. Smith, but Biiansus or Dhols, of which our 

 Cyon primevus is the type. H. Smithes definition of this 

 type, which he calls Chrysceus, is many months posterior 

 to mine, and is likewise inaccurate. The true marks of the 

 type are the deficient molars and the excessive number of the 

 teats. In regard to the former point some doubts have been 

 raised ; wherefore I beg leave to state, that I have examined 

 at least thirty sculls of the Buansu of all ages, from four 

 months to twice as many years, without finding the least 

 variation ; that Dr. Bramley assisted me in the examination 

 of several of these sculls, reluctantly, but fully satisfying his 

 scepticism by means of laying bare the supposed site of the 

 wanting tooth ; and that I have similarly examined very many 

 sculls of Pariars, sporting dogs, jackals and foxes, and yet 

 never found a trace of that variability in the canine dental 

 formula, which has been alleged in order to prove the Buansu^s 

 dentition an accidental or trivial circumstance. In the present 

 paper I have brought to light an anomaly in equine dentition. 

 Will this also be denied or declared to be an unimportant 

 and casual vagary of nature ? Truly, if osteology may not be 

 trusted in our science, I wonder what may be, though I need 

 not be told, that even osteology has its anomalies. 



Darjeeling : November, 1846. 



Observations on the medical effects of a partial Obstruction 

 of the Circulation. By Thomas A. Wise, m. d. 

 The frequency and general danger of the diseases of tropi- 

 cal countries, and the rapidity with which they advance in 

 their course, often reduce the system to such a state of 

 debility, as to prevent the employment of remedies with 

 sufficient celerity to ensure the desired effects ; and even when 



