59G ANALYSIS OF CONTINENTAL JOURNALS. 
of the monograph in a future number of the Veterinarian. 
In the mean time, we must congratulate our French colleagues 
on the substantial and distinguished recognition which their 
contributions to science have obtained for them. 
Our felicitations are also due to M. Reynal, professor at 
the Imperial Veterinary School of Alfort, who has been, by 
imperial decree of the 15th August, promoted to the grade of 
Officier of the Legion of Honour; and to M. C. Leblanc, 
Veterinary Surgeon of Paris, and Secretary of the Imperial 
and Central Veterinary Medical Society, who is, by the same 
decree, named a chevalier of that order. Both the recipients 
are well known to the profession in and beyond France, and 
their honours have been well earned. 
EQUINE POLYDACTYLISM. 
The c Proceedings of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal’ 
for January last contains a drawing of a remarkable case of 
polydactylism in a horse from Bagdad, which tends to illus- 
trate and verify the remarks we made regarding the digital 
extremity of animals, and its transition from the pentadacty- 
lous to the monodactylous type, in the January number of 
the Veterinarian for 1870 (p. 3). 
Mr. Wood-Mason, who exhibited the specimen, remarked 
that the splint-like rudiments of the metacarpals of the fourth 
toe on each fore-foot had given rise to a supernumerary digit 
’provided with the regular number of phalanges, and encased 
in an asymmetrical hoof, the asymmetry of which was such 
that the presence of another of the same shape internally to it 
would have formed a symmetrical pair like the cleft hoof of a 
ruminant. The metatarsals of the fourth toe on each hind 
foot were, by the law of correlation, similarly affected ; but 
the supernumerary hoofs of these were stouter and more irre- 
gular in shape. 
The monstrosity appeared to present an interesting re- 
version in the direction of the extinct fossil Hipparion . 
