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PART V. 
MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE, 
ON NATURAL HISTORY, HORTICULTURE, AND RURAL AFFAIRS. 
I.—NATURAL HISTORY. 
Bicephalous Lizard. —We extract the following singular account from 
the Intelligence of Sunday, May 22nd, which, to those who have not read the 
paper, may not be uninteresting. It appears this memoir was read before 
the Academy of Science, at Paris, on May 9th. “This animal lived for a space 
of five months, in the possession of M. Rigal, an apothecary and druggist, 
at Angeller, in the department of the Upper Pyrenees. In a short time it 
became quite familiar with its master, and was an adept at communicating its 
various wants to him ; if athirst, when an insect was given it to devour, it was 
satisfied with licking it, and if hungry, when drink was set before it it would 
strike the water with its tail. The two heads set to eating simultaneously, if 
both could conveniently seize the food at the same moment; when a single 
insect was offered it, both heads were eager to lay hold of it, and would con¬ 
tend for the right of possession; but as soon as one of them was satisfied, the 
other lost its appetite, and would refuse any food that was presented; but 
when water was set before the animal, the one mouth performed the office of 
drinking for both. It had five feet, four of which were of the usual conformation, 
and were in their usual places, but the fifth was situated at the junction of the 
two necks, and at the upper extremity of the body, common to both. It had 
nine distinct fingers or toes. This extra foot or arm it used for cleaning itself, 
or carrying the food to its mouths: it never carried the food to the same 
mouth in succession, and if it began with the right it always finished with the 
left. The two heads and necks were perfectly distinct, of the same dimen¬ 
sions, and neither of them misshapen. In order to protect it against the severe 
w’inters in 1829 and 1830, the owner was accustomed to take it to bed with 
him, and one morning it was found dead of suffocation.” 
Burning Cliff. —The burning cliff at Holworth, near Weymouth, is now 
becoming an object of particular attention.—Fissures have, within the last 
fortnight opened, discharging vapour at another part, about five hundred feet 
to the westward of the long line of apertures, which have for some time past, 
been in active operation .—Hampshire Advertiser. 
Zoological Society. —The Zoological Society has prepared a paddock in 
its Garden, with a large tank in the centre, for the accommodation and refresh¬ 
ment of a fine elephant, which reached its destination on Friday night. He 
had walked from the East India Docks in little more than two hours; his 
paces were so active, as to compel the keepers who accompanied him to run 
frequently in order to keep up with him. He seemed, indeed, to be pleased at 
having regained the power of exercising his limbs with somewhat like free¬ 
dom, and it is rather surprising that he u^ed them so well, immediately after 
quitting the ship, in which he had been confined more than nine months, 
having arrived in England by way of China, whither the vessel proceeded 
