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THE LATE MR. LISTON. 
VETERINARY surgeons will sympathize in the general regret 
felt through the medical world at the death of this distingished 
surgeon. Until last year Mr. Liston was a member of the Board 
of Veterinary Examiners; from which he only seceded on his 
appointment as Examiner at the Royal College of Surgeons, his 
avocations, probably, not admitting of time for both duties. He 
was an ardent admirer, as well as professed friend, of veterinary 
science. Unsurpassed as a human anatomist and operator, he was 
far from wanting in a general knowledge of veterinary matters; 
his zealous love for medical science in every shape, and his fond- 
ness for horses and hunting in particular (a hobby he indulged 
whenever business permitted and opportunity offered), leading 
him to prosecute such knowledge. He had more than once dis- 
sected the horse. He used to say, the best instrument for that 
purpose w'as not an ordinary scalpel, but a good-sized clasp-knife. 
And his dissections of the horse led to the discovery of a fact 
which, we believe we may with truth say, was not known — at all 
events not promulgated — before ; and that is, the duplex compo- 
sition of the lig amentum nuchce vel colli. He demonstrated its 
separability into two longitudinal halves, saying, he could readily 
introduce his fingers into the interval between them afterdis&ec- 
tion had exposed their inter-cellular connexion. 
REVIEW. 
Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non. — lion. 
Travels in Western Africa in 1845 and 1846, comprising 
a Journey from Whydali , through the Kingdom of Dahomey , 
to Adofoodia , in the Interior. By JOHN DUNCAN, late of the 
First Life Guards, and one of the late Niger Expedition. 2 vol. 
8vo, pp. 304-614. 
It is a rare occurrence to meet with in a horseman the cha- 
racter of what we should designate a traveller. Unless he be — what 
few real horsemen are — a man of thoughts and feelings opposite and 
varied from any which an acquaintance with or fondness for horses 
is apt to engender, travelling into far and distant and uncivilized 
regions is not apt to accord with his notions of enjoyment ; and this 
