Musaeum Regalis Societatis. Or a catalogue & description of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal Society ... Whereunto is subjoyned the comparative anatomy of stomachs and guts / [Nehemiah Grew].

  • Grew, Nehemiah, 1641-1712
Date:
1686
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Credit: Musaeum Regalis Societatis. Or a catalogue & description of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal Society ... Whereunto is subjoyned the comparative anatomy of stomachs and guts / [Nehemiah Grew]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Of Quadruped's. Part L in Cakeolarim’s Mufaunu That in Kirchers China lUuftrata faulty as to the Snout and Feet. That of Johnfton ab- furd. Almoft every where worfe defcrib'd.. That he is a two-hor7id Animal, fays Aldrovandus, aU agree, except Simeon Sethi, who faith he hath but one. Neither of which is true. The Defcription likewife given by and out of him by Chiocco in Caleeolarius s hAiifreum is falfc, and very defective. The beft I find is amongft the German Tranfadions. To which I would have refer d the Rea¬ der, but that comparing it with That I had drawn up before I met with it, I fee fome differences. From hisNofe end to his Tail, a prd and ^ a foot long, Flis Head above Ka foot. His Neck 5 of a yard. His Fore¬ head three inches broad. His Nofe end fcarce ? of an inch, being very lharp, like that of a Grey-Hound. His Ears like a Coneys, about three inches long, and ered. As alfo his Tail or Scut, which exceeds not two inches. His fore-. Leg a foot and two inches long, taking in Foot and Thigh.' Near an inch over: the Foot deeply cloven 5 with tw^o fore-Hoofs, an inch and ^ long, each ^ of an inch over 5 and two Heels, almoft as big, and therefore confpicuous. His hinder feet are here wanting. His hair on his Head and Legs about ^ inch long, and rateably fmall. Onliis Belly an inch and ^ long, and fome- what thicker. On his Back and Buttocks three inches long : thicker in proportion, than in any other Animal, except perhaps fome of the Deer kind, fc. three or four times as, thick as Hogs Briftles: confifting of brown and white portf ons alternately from the Root to the top.On the Head and Legs, brown 3 On the Belly and under the Skut,whitifh. As it were frizled, efpecially on the Back and Belly,by a kind of undulation. Softer than in moft Animals, and exceeding light and rare. For being fplit, and view'd with a Glafs, they appear to be made up of little Bladders, like thofe in the Plume or Stalk of a Qmll: fo that it is a thing betwixt a common Hair and a Qmll. On each fide his lower Chap, almoft under the corners of his mouth, there is a peculiar Tuft (about Lof an inch long) of Ihort, thick and hard hairs, or rather Briftles, of equal length, as in a ferub- ing-Brufh. The Musk Bladder or Bag is about three inches long, two 4