COLLECTION OF ARTICULATED ANIMALS. 5oi 



and remarkable for the spine which projects 

 from the exterior edge of its tube, comes from 

 the seas of INew Holland. 4 tn - The galeola- 

 ridj from the same seas. 5th. The magilus, of 

 which one of the two species in the cabinet, 

 the m. antiquus, from the isle of France, forms 

 tubes several feet in length with a spiral ter- 

 mination. 



The collection of intestinal worms was formed 

 at Vienna by M. Bremser, who has made a par- 

 ticular study of this class of animals, and sent to 

 the administration of the Museum in exchange 

 for other objects of natural history. It consists 

 of six hundred and six species of worms, taken 

 from the interior of two hundred and fifty-nine 

 species of vertebrate d animals belonging to the 

 four classes. Each bottle is numbered in re- 

 ference to a catalogue, in which is found the 

 name of the worm and that of the animal from 

 which it was taken. 



These worms are the more interesting, as each 

 species belongs to a particular animal or to a 

 particular part of the body, and produces a dif- 

 ferent malady according to its nature. 



We observe among this numerous series, the 

 ascarides from the human body (n° 4) ; those of 

 the horse (n° 178) ; the taenia (n° 9); the hydatid 

 from the sheep (n° i3i) ; and the echinococcus 



