Part of a Letter from Dr. Archibald Adams of Norwich, to Dr. Edwaid Tyson, Fellow of theCollege of Physicians and Royal Society; Concerning a Monstrous Calf, and Some ThingsObservable in the Anatomy of a Human EarAuthor(s): Archibald AdamsSource: Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775), Vol. 25 (1706 - 1707), pp. 2414-2415Published by: The Royal SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/102716 .

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IV. Purt of a .Letter f om 73r. Archibald Adams of Nortch to Dr.-EdwaId Tyt.oll.,. fiiellow#;theColl.ege.of.P.hyA c*S"S-nd Royal Soctety ; concersixg a

IX*rous CadJOe thigs obferw AIc S the Aeatotny of v- IIamat Er.

T Have made what fearcll I could about tllat Mon- | filOUS Calfsand I find that its Dam wasalltllat a Poo.t

gLn hadX whv ISnding his (701 unable to call her Yourag employ'd llis Neiglibour to affil* 11er; this Marl not tllinking of any fuch Rarity usad fuch vioIence upon tllc -Monficr, tl<-at he disEgurnd rlle Head in pulling stfrom-the Co)v; notwithfianding it livid threc Hours, and -in all probabi;lity 11ad lived till this timoe if tIze Af- SRant had ma-de nfe Fof-the befi Method in that caie and fo by dePcroying the Owngrs All, might have iavvd him an Eliate-. thenzit DyXd and being Rip'd up was found, to thebcIi of my Infblmation, to be iin all reW fpeEts like any other of the fame kind, -exc-e?ting the Wings, whicli to me feem to be Bags formed out of the Membranes, torn and difiended from the ad jatentpartss

and by freth fupplies from the circlllating Plllids were inlargvd to the bigllefs you now See them in. Whether the Zubitance contain in thefe Baggs sras FIbrous and MuScularX or only a heap of Yeffels inclofed in a C#s lilie the Plaae2wt42 The Afl^sRants Igilorance, and tile diffance of time and place, it being three YearsagoX make me uncapable to accotInt for ; The place is called 7toltertox in Norfolk.

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Royal Society a Grelham-College, givev to tbe fiame e Dr. Adams.] Give me leave to write one tlling sarhicll to me is

altoge£her nesv. TI1e boi<y Caxrity r rlae Ear is cover- ed at each end by a 3VIemblane ; the fbrmev is called the Membo4ane of tl1e Drun1 and tI1e other is dire&ly op- pofite to it; the outei is flronger than tlle innerX fo I call 11vXn1 S^i;81 ftlbriIilion. TJley are ioilled togetller by tle handie of rle 1'u,/>XS adl1ci ing to tl1e outer aild the uExper part of the Stiri*up to tlle inner, wllich by the intvl^stention pf the lScas and tlae Orbicula1 Bone make a thaill, and tiley ietn to be adred and le-aEtcd by t1RcSe fmall Bones r tciproal]y.

W7laetll ArtiEs had any refipe& tO tlliS O;iginal, when tizey firR deviSed I)iums) I cannot Iiay; bur no- tlling can more nearly 1eprewent the Natural tllan the 2trriticial does; the SlXitls oftlais anfwerilzC, tO the lNlem- bran;s cf tlaatn the Wooden Cylixlder to tl1e 13iJney Ca- vity ; tne found of rlae D1 um svould be flat without a$C

Hole in the fide) antl Nature }1asgiven a paffiage fiom tlle Paiate to tJle Eat;. Tlle Skins of tlle Drum would lein. thc found, if t;ey vrere 1lot kept oll the l:Tretch > b >otlid thoft Qf Flle otller flag, if the handle of the Hatntner and the Stirrup keep tllem on not the Tenre

This iIaner Metubrane is cloSely Rretchd before the lLaby X inthX tlle crXmen rotend#3nn and tlle paffige into tlle CocSelea} (I omit the hrnea ()vale becauSe tlleFoot of the Stirrup exaftly Jhuts itJ? that fO tlle found may wbe the bigger upon its approacll to the Nerves. Tl1e StiV- rup is generally broke in dilTeAing tlle tar, fpatri:ul-arly rhat Cover srhich goes over tile lSone oil eac 1 fi(le ; but if it bc carefully openvd tlae Stixrupis entirely covelXd

with a Membranen svhich fbrms a Cavity flatlyOvalX and tlle infide is Excavated.

1\7srsvithX Devegber, I.8 x.70 6. V.A

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