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Show 1900.] PIECE OF SKIN FROM PATAGONIA. 381 found it was rolled up like a ball ; but by moistening the specimen he was able to unwrap it and stretch it iuto the form shown in the accompanying photograph (see fig. 1, p. 380). It measures about 0T5 m.in length, but its breadth varies betweenO-05 m. and0-015 m. Its thickness, where stretched, is quite 0002 m.; where contracted, somewhat greater. It is very densely covered with hair of a Micrographic reproduction of some of the hairs of the piece of skin. reddish-brown colour, redder than the coloration common in cattle and perhaps best described as fox-red. The hair seems to brf a little more shiny than that of a fox, and occasionally it appears to be bleached to a pale yellow. It is, however, uncertain whether the paler spols are original or due to accident: it can only be said that they are probably original, because the paler tufts and single |