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land, when the soldier now beards the critic for dissent on the merits of a wild 
hypothesis. But we very much suspect that this answer, (which only pretends 
to rectify a misquotation and suppression from Beechey’s narrative,) owes its ori- 
gin, not to any malevolence against Mr. Barrow, for whom the author professes 
feelings of friendship, but to the conception of a species of practical pun, for whose 
developement it was necessary that the punster should journey to Rome. 
“ As to your answer to this,”’ says Sir Rufane in conclusion, ‘‘ in the shape 
of a note, or in any other, I shall probably not see it, as, long before your next 
Number comes out, I shall be‘on my way to Rome; and in that classical city I 
presume your Review will not venture to show its face, after having spoken so 
ixreverently of all those immortal ancient writers, who are heid there in such ve- 
neration : but, should you find a safe private hand by which to send it, I shall 
be glad of your next number, in case you answer this Letter, and clear up the 
clouds which now hang over your Quarterly Publication; and if, when packing 
up your next Number, it should open its mouth, or leaves, and plead against a 
journey to Rome, the ‘“‘ quid Rome faciam ? mentiri nescio,” you must reject 
the plea at once, and pack him up.” —P, 44. 

NATURAL-HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS. 
Dr. Knox’s Theory of Hermaphrodism,—the substance of a Lecture delivered 
to his Class of Comparative Anatomy, on Friday the 24th July last. 
THE only notice we can at present take of this lecture, and of the extended 
views it contained, is to present our readers with the few prefatory and brief re- 
marks with which Dr. Knox intreduced the lecture. He stated that it was by 
no means his intention to submit to the class the whole of the inquiries he had 
been engaged in on the subject of hermaphroditic structure ; neither would he oc- 
cupy their attention with the details which had led him insensibly to the adop~ 
tion of those views, a portion of which it was his intention to lay before them : 
but being pledged to produce these inquiries elsewhere, he would limit himself 
entirely to a bare announcement of some of the more striking results. 
The object of his inquiry had been twofeld. First, To explain the doctrine of 
the ancients as to the double course of the seminal fluids from the ovaria; and 
this led to the determination of the organs minutely described by Casper, Bauhin, 
Malpighi, and others, in certain ruminating and pachydermatous animals,—organs 
which they took for portions of female structure, because they were found in fe- . 
males, and for which they invented functions in direct contradiction to their anato- 
mical structure, adding thereby errors in matters of fact to errors in theory or spe- 
culation. These organs Dr. Knox proved to be the remains of male organs, though 
existing in the females of the ruminants; and this proof was fully borne out by 
his own dissections, by those of Mr. Hunter, and of all anatomists, though con- 
ducted by quite other views. To shew how extended the errors were on this 
matter, the lecturer referred to a late number of the Annales du Museum, 
where these organs, which have been so well described by Bauhin, Malpighi 
in his letter to Spon, Gertner, and many others, and whose anatomical connec- 
tions cannot possibly escape the notice of any careful anatomist, are denominated 
utero-vaginal ducts, although they have never, in any instance, been found to 
communicate with the uterus, and were moreover shewn by Dr. K. to have no 
connection whatever with the system of female organs. 
__ Secondly, To determine what are male and what female generative organs, and 
the laws of formation with regard to these systems. The law was shewn to be 
simple and hermaphroditical, and the doctrine of analogies, as laid down by an- 
