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370 KlRBY-’s WONDERFUL MUSEUM.
forth, of the size nearly of ordinary flies : they had already
the form of grasshoppers, but they had as yet no wings.
This observation shews, that the author of the foregoing
account was mistaken, when he says, these insects had at
first the form of grubs or small worms.” They change their
skins several times, but they do not acquire wings till they
have changed for the last time.
The grasshoppers taken in England, in 1748, have been
compared with those that have been sent over from Hungary
and Poland that same year, and they have been found to be
perfectly of the same kind, There are in Sir Hans Sloane’s
collection, (see vol. I. page 29, of his History of Jamaica),
some of the same sort of locusts, or grasshoppers, preserved
in spirits of wine, and which were taken up here, above 30
years before, and are exactly like those from Egypt and
Barbary.
Phil. Trans. Vol. 46, p. 30,
Gent. Mag. 1749, p. 431.
A GIRL WITH A HARE’S FACE.
March, 1764. At the beginning of this month, a girl
was born near Toulon, in France, whose whole face re-
sembled a hare, excepting her ears j she was otherwise fair
and well shaped. Her mother declares, that she had a
strong inclination to eat the raw heart of a hare, which her
husband brought home one day, during the early part of her
pregnancy, but could not prevail with herself to make known
her desire. Another very remarkable fact is related, of a lady
who was in the habit of giving charity to a poor man who
had lost his right arm : she was soon after delivered of a son„
who wanted his right hand; and when this son was grown
to maturity and mamed, had also a son bom without a
&and.
Annual Register, 1764, p. 61,
forth, of the size nearly of ordinary flies : they had already
the form of grasshoppers, but they had as yet no wings.
This observation shews, that the author of the foregoing
account was mistaken, when he says, these insects had at
first the form of grubs or small worms.” They change their
skins several times, but they do not acquire wings till they
have changed for the last time.
The grasshoppers taken in England, in 1748, have been
compared with those that have been sent over from Hungary
and Poland that same year, and they have been found to be
perfectly of the same kind, There are in Sir Hans Sloane’s
collection, (see vol. I. page 29, of his History of Jamaica),
some of the same sort of locusts, or grasshoppers, preserved
in spirits of wine, and which were taken up here, above 30
years before, and are exactly like those from Egypt and
Barbary.
Phil. Trans. Vol. 46, p. 30,
Gent. Mag. 1749, p. 431.
A GIRL WITH A HARE’S FACE.
March, 1764. At the beginning of this month, a girl
was born near Toulon, in France, whose whole face re-
sembled a hare, excepting her ears j she was otherwise fair
and well shaped. Her mother declares, that she had a
strong inclination to eat the raw heart of a hare, which her
husband brought home one day, during the early part of her
pregnancy, but could not prevail with herself to make known
her desire. Another very remarkable fact is related, of a lady
who was in the habit of giving charity to a poor man who
had lost his right arm : she was soon after delivered of a son„
who wanted his right hand; and when this son was grown
to maturity and mamed, had also a son bom without a
&and.
Annual Register, 1764, p. 61,