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Their mother died : cow's milk was given for food : ulcers 

 formed upon inferior extremities, and they died, one an hour 

 before the other, on April 14th, 1847. 



The preparation was sent to the Medical College, and 

 examined by Professor Webb and Dr. Macpherson. On 

 laying open the chest and abdomen it was found, that the 

 fleshy band of union contained in its interior liver and 

 intestines. The intestines were easily withdrawn into the 

 true abdominal cavity, but the liver was fixed to a serous 

 membrane which divided the band of union — the left lobe of 

 the liver of one child, and the right lobe of that of the other, 

 being adherent at this point. From the common umbilicus, 

 umbilical vessels diverged to either side — each child was 

 therefore in all respects individually complete, although 

 their livers were in contact. It is plain that it would have 

 been impossible to separate the children without laying open 

 the abdominal cavities of both, and also cutting through 

 their livers, an operation which most people would not be 

 inclined to attempt. 



Chittagong: May Sth, 1847. 



Some general remarks on the Flora of Ceylon. 

 Bij George Gardner, F.L.S. 



Although Ceylon is celebrated for the luxuriant vegetation by 

 which it is covered, the plants which compose it are less known 

 to botanists than those perhaps of any other portion of India of 

 equal extent. While the history and uses of the vegetable produc- 

 tions of the possessions of the East India Company and most of the 

 islands of the Indian Archipelago have been given to the world by 

 modern botanists, those of Ceylon are at the present day nearly as 

 little understood in Europe as they were one hundred years ago, 

 when Linnaeus published his " Flora Zeylanica," founded on collec- 

 tions which had been made in the Island by Hermann, a Dutch 





