MAY 1? 



580 Dr Harris on a nondescript Species 



of his lower extremities. We must then denominate him,' as 

 some naturalists have done, a quadrumanus animal. 



NOTE. 



The preparations which have been made from him are 

 The skin stuifed and prepared to exhibit his external ap- 

 pearance. 



His natural skeleton entire. 



The heart fully injected, with the aorta and other vessels, 

 and the lungs in situ, with a portion of the diaphragm. 



The tongue, larynx, pharynx, &c. exhibiting the peculiar 

 structure of its connexion with the pouch, and its general re- 

 semblance to man's. 



Dried preparations of the stomach, caput coli, and its ap- 

 pendix, and of the urinary and gall bladders. 

 Boston^ July 1st, 1825. 



Art. hXllh-~^Descr{ption of a nondescript Species of the Genus 

 Condylura, By T. W. Harris, M. D. Communicated 

 b}^ the author. 



The genus Condylura was constructed by llliger for the 

 reception of the Sorex cristatus of Linnaeus, the Radiated mole 

 of Pennant. 



This name, derived from Tiov^vXog, a knot, and ovqt], the 

 tail, is essentially bad, as it is founded on an exaggerated or 

 caricatured representation of the tail of the animal, and on a 

 structure which does not exist, in the slightest degree, in the 

 species to be here described. Desmarest, who has amended 

 the characters of the genus, did not think it expedient to 

 change the name, and thus embarrass nomenclature with a 

 new synonym. 



Cuvier, in the Regne Animal^ has suppressed the genus 

 Condylura, being confident, he says, from an inspection of 

 the teeth, that the radiated mole is a Talpa and not a Sorex. 

 Desmarest* thinks that Cuvier must have examined, by mis- 

 take, the denuded head of a true Talpa, instead of that of 

 the Condylura. He observes that a specimen of this animal, 

 sent by Le Seuer from Philadelphia, presents characters pe- 



* See Article Taupe ; r^ouveau Dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle. Tom. 

 xxsii. Paris 1819. 



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