Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 12 March 1895, Page 3

Notes and Events.

1 We published a short time back ; some yarns about the Gila monster, i a reptile that slew travellers, and al~ i together a horrible creepy thing, i We find that it is a lizard of very 1 large dimensions, called Gila, from > the river of that name in Arizona. ) It is a clumsy figure and of a most t repulsive aspect. Its colour is of a , blackish brown, ornamented with • orange blotches over its body and • rings of the same colour round its , tail. It is the only member of the » lizard family that is poisonous, and , its bite proves fatal to small animals , in a very short space of time, but r not necessarily to human life, as ex- - periments have shown. The astonishing and inhuman > possibility of building up living anit mals from parts of several animals t has been demonstrated by Dr C. i Born, a German physiologist. The : experiments were made with tadpoles and other larvee otamphibiana. t Each of these was cut in two, and r different parts were placed together

in various ways, when some of them united, the hinder more readily than the fore parts. Two hinder parts, each with or without a heart, united in 24 hours, the monstrosity living and growing for a week or more.