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SELECTED ARTICLES. 
ART. XXVI. — NOTES TAKEN AT THE POST-MORTEM EX- 
AMINATION OF A MUSK DEER. By A. Campbell, Esq., 
Nipal Residency, June 24, 1834. 
(Addressed to J. T. Pearson, Esq. , Curator, Asiatic Society. ) 
I have the pleasure to send you, for the museum of the 
Asiatic Society, a very perfect skin (head and feet included) 
of the Thibetan Musk Deer, as well as of the Wah of the 
Bhotiahs, Ailurus fulgens of the zoologist, and hope they 
may reach you in the same perfect state they are now in. 
The musk has been a full grown male, and a large one too. 
The natives of Nipal make a marked distinction between the 
Trans-Himalayan animal, and the Cacharya one, or that 
which inhabits the country along the foot of the snows on 
this side of the great snowy mountains; ranking the musk of 
the former much higher than that of the latter variety. The 
specimen now sent is of the Trans-Himalayan animal. The 
notes appended are of the Cis-Himalayan one. Through 
the kindness of Mr. Hodgson, I have had opportunities of 
examining specimens of both animals, but without observing 
any important difference between them. The musk pod of 
the Thibetan animal is covered with short close hair, w 7 hile 
that of the Cachar one is clothed with very long hair, and 
hangs more loosely from the belly. I believe the musk of 
both, when unadulterated, to be much alike, and that the 
superficial value attached to the Thibetan animal's produce, 
arises from the circumstance of its being less frequently im- 
pregnated with foreign substances, for the purpose of increasing 
its weight and bulk, than the Cachar article. The pods, as 
they are found in the market, whether Thibetan or Cacharya, 
vary a good deal in appearance, and hence the general division 
of them above noted is subdivided : the thinner skinned ones 
being called Kaghazi, or papery, the thicker skinned ones 
Ganauta. 
You will readily observe that the anatomical notes are very 
