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Correspondence . 
[February, 
b^Mf£fJy e f rvi 7' of the Attest, which in our day, on the 
significance T ^ g "’ 3 beCT ™ sed t0 Such e ! <t™“''dinary 
Umilf OT h Dn«H Jj 0f Tn° ' r T >’ ndal1 .— Materialist or Spiritualist, 
“rtain sound“-Tam, T & c e , Pe ‘ " ' he f ° £ - h0m g ‘ VeS " ^ 
Varro. 
OBSERVATIONS IN NATURAL HISTORY. 
To the Editor of the Journal of Science. 
wStXt™ Lion-Ton years ago I saw lion cubs, at 
“ shot-colors.” ^° W| W h e ° Pard Sp ° tS visible by side H g h t. like 
Squirrels — Grantley Berkeley found the squirrel an enemv to 
t P re e e a ra a t n ” S it an d d o a " d alth °“S h it V as you a 
tree rat, it does not confine itself to trees. In winter I found 
one in a hedge, far from trees, above 12 feet high • and near 
Barmou h, I saw a white-tailed squirrel leap from stone to’ stone 
wa 0 s n fook r „ 0 a 0 ort, Sre h ater aaivit >’ than a rat > “ d 1 T 
Ztt mT g A ; he was 80 ea S er that , as 1 stood motion- 
iquirJS f s ^re a„d°I ‘ my fisl 1 lin ^ rod * The white-tailed 
squirrel is rare, and I never saw another. 
Fireflies.-- Leigh Hunt, in his “Autobiography,” speaks of the 
by Greek o ^ ^ tha * 
A Latm Wnters i and he thinks they are first men- 
America? Is^his coCrea? ‘ hey may haVe been brought from 
Hybernation— Must not the mammoth have hybernated ? 
Nottingham, January 4, 1884. Hugh Browne. 
TAPE-WORMS AND HERMAPHRODITES. 
To the Editor of the Journal of Sew 
S ! R »~ P ™ f ® s ®JT Huxley, in his Letters to Worki 
wicke, 1863) “ On our Knowledge of the Causes of , 
Men (Hard- 
Phenomena 
