. The museum of natural history, with introductory essay on the natural history of the primeval world : being a popular account of the structure, habits, and classification of the various departments of the animal kingdom, quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, shells, and insects, including the insects destructive to agriculture . rny, recurved papilla ofthe tongue, formed for rasping the soft flesh from off thebones of their slaughtered victims—the comparativelysmall salivary glands, showing how little mastication isrequired—the uninterrupted chain of osseous elementsextending from the larynx
. The museum of natural history, with introductory essay on the natural history of the primeval world : being a popular account of the structure, habits, and classification of the various departments of the animal kingdom, quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, shells, and insects, including the insects destructive to agriculture . rny, recurved papilla ofthe tongue, formed for rasping the soft flesh from off thebones of their slaughtered victims—the comparativelysmall salivary glands, showing how little mastication isrequired—the uninterrupted chain of osseous elementsextending from the larynx to the head—the flexibilityof the vertebral colunui—the small coecum—the sliort-ness of the intestinal canal, and, more particularly, thesimple cjlindrical stomach, which explains that thefood is more readily reduced to the condition requiredfor nutriment, than obtains in the herbivorous quad-rupeds. Do not these, and other peculiarities elsewherenoticed, satisfoctorily demonstrate that the typicalcarnivor is intended to occupy the field in the economyof creation for which his powers are so befittinglyadapted? Surely one would suppose that the legitimacyof such a self-evident conclusion could not be denied IAre we perverting truth to say, that the lion was notformed to eat straw like an ox ? Unfortunately, there. Lions Foot dissected. ■ forward of the claw 110 , are some so-called educated people who would fainpersuade us that we are wrong 1 It is sad to reflectthat some persons can he found who will thus resistthe evid nee of their senses, in order to gratify achildish crotchet, or to support a pre-conceived dogma!Those of our readers wlio have perused the addressissued previous to the publication of this part of theMuseum of Natural History, will appreciate themotive which thus leads us to oiler a few reflections onthe habits of this higldy interesting class of many years ago the writer of this article liad themisfortune t
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