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Title: Nature
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Lockyer, Norman, Sir, 1836-1920. edt
Subjects: Science Science Sciences Biologie Physique Natuurwetenschappen CIENCIA NATURAL HISTORY BIOLOGY SCIENCE
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e a square brick ; the foreleg from theshoulder to the knee l; arsin long, and at the narrowest part a quarter in diameter. The hole in which themarrow lies is so big that a fist may be inserted, other-wise the legs bear no proportion to the body, being rathershort. The heathens living by the River Obi state thatthey have seen them floating in this river as big as a struus, i.e. a vessel which the Russians use. Thisanimal lives in the earth, and dies as soon as it comesinto the air. On the reverse of the drawing we read :— This drawing and description is given by BaronKagg, who has just returned from captivity in Russia andSiberia, 1722, in Decembri. This drawing was exhibited by Benzelius at the meet-ing of the Upsala Scientific Society, December 14, 1722.The statement referring thereto in the Journal of theSociety is as follows :— Herr Benzelius exhibited a good drawing of ananimal, transmitted by Baron Kagg, who has just re-turned from captivity in Russia and Siberia, which the
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Siberiaks call Mehemoth or Mammont, which has causedmany to believe that it was identical with Behemoth ofJob. Herr Prof. Rudbcck and Dr. Martin maintainedthat it was a sea animal, moreover as Herr Kagg statedthat it was found at the River Obi. To this was addedthat Capt. Lundius had said that its bones were mostlyfound in the earth by the river. With regard to theanimal being drawn with claws. Prof Rudbeck pointedout that as yet no animal cornigenim had been found alsoto be UKguicidattiDi, without being pabnipcs or ha\ingskin between the toes like geese, &c. It was decided towrite to Herr Kagg, requesting some information aboutthe figure, and asking how he had obtained it, so that itmight be ascertained whether it was reliable. There is a ^ Published in Ytner (Journal of the Swedish Anthropological and Geo-graphical Society), 1884. Parts 7 and 8. (Translation communicated by theAuthor.) - Svenska Akademiens handlingar (Proceeihigs of the SwedishAcademy), Part 58. Stockholm, 1883,

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