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��floor, are savage implements nii<l euriositiea. whicli cannot fait to intcresl the ^'i.'^itor, espe- cially as they are nil explniued by the ctirntor, Mr. Murphy, who has thrilling tales to tell of each separate piece ; nor is the curiosity-hunter Uie only person who is iikeiy to be interested in this museum. In its collection of ti-opical shells, there are many which cnnuot be num- bered among the commonest : Ixit, for the naturalist, the one thing which possesses an

��Mr, Slurphy desci'ibes the animal, tells about its enemy the whale-killer, its parasites and other peets, explains the process of killing the whale and cutting up and trying out the blub- ber, illustrating his talk either with the appa- ratus itself or with ingeniously made models. On the other side of Sie room is a small jaw twisted in a spiral direction, and bearing plain evidences of having been injureil at an earlier stage- The teeth arc long and somewhat

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��all-nlisorbifig iuli?rest is the sperm-whale's j:iw. i^hich extends nearly across the exhibition- The curator, who considers this his spe- cial pet, is full of enthusiasm for it, and claims that it is the only full-grown jaw of a sperm- wbale in America. It was taken in li:<65 by a Kantucket whaler in the Pacific Ocean, from a sperm-whale which measured eighty-seven feet in length and thirty-six feet in ci renin fei-e nee, and had the enormous weight of two hundred tans. The whale gave forty-five hundred gal- lons of oil. The jaw itself weighs eight hun- dred pounds, measures seventeen feet in length, and has forty-six huge teeth. These are badly vorn, and prove that the animal must have !en very old. In connection with the jaw,

��slenrler. partly from the youth of the animal, partly from disuse. When taken, the whale was alive ; but the lower jaw was badly aborted, and the animal was in a poor state. It must have been in this condition for years, and hare lived upon what chanced to come in its way. It is to be hoped that the collection may al- ways be well cared for, and may become more than now the nucleus of a gootl collection of the natural objects of NanUieket itself.

��THE 'COMMA BACILLUS' OF KOCH. Dr. Kocii has himselfstated in precise terms

the nature of the proof required in order to es-

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