IV. Part of a letter from Dr. Archibald Adams of Norwich, to Dr. Edward Tyson, Fellow of the College of Physicians and Royal Society; concerning a monstrous calf, and some things observable in the anatomy of a human ear

I Have made what search I could about that Monstrous Calf, and I find that its Dam was all that a Poor Man had, who finding hisCow unable to cast her Young, employ'd his Neighbour to assist her; this Man not thinking of any such Rarity us'd such violence upon the Monster, that he disfigur'd the Head in Pulling it from theCow ; notwithstanding it liv'd three Hours, and in all probability had lived till this time, if the Assistant had made use of the best Method in that case, and so by destroying the Owners All, might have fav'd him an Estate: then it Dy'd, and being Rip'd up was found, to the best of my Information, to be in all respects like any other of the same kind, excepting the Wings, which to me seem to be Bags formed out of the Membranes, torn and distended from the adjacent parts, and by fresh supplies from the circulating Fluids were inlarg'd to the bigness you now see them in.