This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 edition. Excerpt: ... XXVI. Notes on the Natural History and Habits of the Ornithorhynchus paradoxus, Blum. By George Bennett, Esq., F.L.S., Corr. Memb. Z.S. Communicated May 27, 1834. In the commencement of the year 1829, when I first arrived in the Colony of New South Wales, my attention was directed towards two points of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 edition. Excerpt: ... XXVI. Notes on the Natural History and Habits of the Ornithorhynchus paradoxus, Blum. By George Bennett, Esq., F.L.S., Corr. Memb. Z.S. Communicated May 27, 1834. In the commencement of the year 1829, when I first arrived in the Colony of New South Wales, my attention was directed towards two points of Natural Science which were at that time desiderata--one the mode of generation of the Kangaroo, to explain in what manner the young are brought into connexion with the nipple--and the other the mode of generation and habits of the animal which forms the subject of the present communication. To all the inquiries I made of persons long resident in the Colony, I could only procure very unsatisfactory replies. I found then, as I also found on my subsequent and second visit to the Colony, that the majority preferred forming theories of their own and arguing on their plausibility, to devoting a few leisure days to the collection of facts by which the questions might be set at rest for ever. At this time a voyage of great interest to me, among the Islands of the Polynesian Archipelago and to New Zealand, prevented my devoting the time which I had at first intended to employ in attempting the discovery and elucidation of those doubtful points; and I left New South Wales in March 1829, expecting that before my return to England some intelligent person resident in the Colony would devote himself to the task and determine them by actual observation. On my return to England, however, in April 1831, I found that all the questions relative to those animals still remained in the same undecided state, excepting that my friend Mr. Owen had succeeded in injecting with mercury the ducts of the supposed mammary glands of the Ornithorhynchus; a communication on which...
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