Show A window in nig ills head although every dog has his day few of the species attain to the distinction and celebrity of one which formerly belonged to the late sir mr arthur durham the fame of this animal was spread far and wide about five and twenty or thirty years ago and durhams dog was as well known in scientific tiEc circles as the president of the royal society F for or the better pursuit of his investigations into the state of the brain in sleeping and waking mr durham had removed a large part of the animals skull and had glazed the orifice with a stout watch glass the operation had been performed with the assistance of atias and the dog was quite unaware that anything of the kind had occurred to him or that he had a transparent crown to his cranium fiut through this watch glass glasl the state of the eiren circulation in his brain in sleeping or calr waking could be observed with the great greatest erst accuracy and ease case and much useful information was thus supplied by him I 1 believe that he lived happily for many years afterwards and that he suffered no inconvenience from having a glass top london world |