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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, Vol. 9: 1862, 1863 Mr. Wilder described the muscles which move the snout of the hog. The elevator has a very long tendon, and its mus onlar attachment is very far back, protected by a long ridge, and safe from all ordinary accidents; the depressor, on the contrary, is very short, and attached very near the' terminal cartilage, both muscles of the important organ being thus protected from injury. He remarked that while we consider the. Long snout of the hog, compared with that of common animals, as a sign of what we know to be his beastly nature, yet the same organ, still further prolonged into the trunk of the elephant, changes its function with the nature of the animal so as to be capable of executing very various and delicate motions. So that it is not always safe to take a single organ as an index of the nature of the possessor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.