nes.

New Arrangement of the Bichromate of Potash Pile.--3
figures.

The Distribution of Electricity by Induction.--1 figure.

Electricity Applied to the study of Seismic Movements.--Apparatus
for the study of horizontal and vertical seismic
movements, etc.--8 figures.

New Accumulators.--3 figures.

Industrial Model of the Reynier Zinc Accumulator.

The History of a Lightning Flash.--By W. SLINGO.

Researches on Magnetism.

VI. NATURAL HISTORY.--The Giraffe.--With engraving.

VII. MEDICINE, AND HYGIENE.--The Treatment of Cholera--By
Dr. H.A. RAWLINS.

Temperature. Moisture, and Pressure, in their Relations
to Health.--London deaths under 1 year in July, August,
and part of September.

Consumption Spread by Chickens.

New Method of Reducing Fever.

VIII. MISCELLANEOUS.--The Crown Diamonds of France at the
Exhibition of Industrial Arts.

A New Mode of Testing the Economy of the Expenses of
Management in Life Insurance.--By WALTER C. WRIGHT.

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THE GIRAFFE.

The spirited view herewith presented, representing the "Fall of the
Giraffe" before the rifle of a sportsman, we take from the _Illustrated
London News_. Hunting the giraffe has long been a favorite sport among the
more adventurous of British sportsmen, its natural range being all the
wooded parts of eastern, central, and southern Africa, though of late
years it has been greatly thinned out before the settlements advancing
from the Cape of Good Hope.

[Illustration: THE FALL OF THE GIRAFFE.]

The characteristics of this singular animal are in some particulars those
of the camel, the ox, and the antelope. Its eyes are beautiful, extremely
large, and so placed that the animal can see much of what is passing on
all sides, and even behind it, so that it is approached with the greatest
difficulty. The animal when full grown attains sometimes a height of
fifteen to seventeen feet. It feeds on the leaves and twigs of trees
principally, its immense length of legs and height at the withers
rendering it difficult for the animal to graze on an even surface. It is
not easily overtaken except by a swift horse, but when surprised or run
down it can defend itself with considerable vigor by kicking, thus, it is
said, often tiring out and beating off the lion. It was formerly almost
universally be