Mounting a Monster Sea Elephant

A Monster Resembling a Mermaid (Sea-Nymph)

Sir,?On 6th October morning, I was called upon to see an infant bom at 9 a.m. the same day. The infant's body was normal down to the pelvis; but both the lower extremities from the hip joint down to the feet -were joined. There was no big joint visible below the pelvis. This whole structure was slightly bent with concavity at its dorsum. All the ten toes ^ere normal and presented the appearance...

Phylogenetics links monster larva to deep-sea shrimp

Mid-water plankton collections commonly include bizarre and mysterious developmental stages that differ conspicuously from their adult counterparts in morphology and habitat. Unaware of the existence of planktonic larval stages, early zoologists often misidentified these unique morphologies as independent adult lineages. Many such mistakes have since been corrected by collecting larvae, raising...

A Double-Headed Monster

A Monster Lie Algebra ?

We define a remarkable Lie algebra of infinite dimension, and conjecture that it may be related to the Fischer-Griess Monster group. The idea was mooted in [C-N] that there might be an infinite-dimensional Lie algebra (or superalgebra) L that in some sense “explains” the Fischer-Griess ‘Monster” group M . In this chapter we produce some candidates for L based on properties of the Leech lattice ...

A Double-Headed Monster

A double-headed monster was born in the Railway Hospital, Samastipur, on 5th July, 1948. It is an interesting case because of its rarity; the photograph (plate XXII) tells its own story. Dr. Mody, in his jurisprudence, gives a picture of such monster without any detail. The woman was a sweeper by caste, second para, and fairly well built. She came to hospital in a precarious condition, having b...