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Show 314 MESSRS. B. C A. WINDLE AND E. G. PARSONS ON [Mar. 7, [B.S.-Two points respecting the geographical distribution of the Gorilla appear to me to call for notice here. Last year (1898) the occurrence of a Gorilla near Brazzaville on the Congo Avas recorded, and, iu fact, the specimen was brought to England. Secondly, in the same year AA-as published Captain Burrows's book, entitled' 'The Land of the Pigmies,' which contains a photograph of an Ape described as a Gorilla, which was shot at Stanley Falls. If Ave regard this Ape as a genuine Gorilla, it follows that the eastAvard range of that animal is much more extensive than it is commonly supposed to be; but unfortunately the evidence of the photograph alone does not support that specific title, shovAing as it does that the specimen was possessed of distinct Chimpanzee features. Without further investigation, therefore, no final conclusion on this point can be arrived at.] 3. On the Myology of the Edentata. By BERTRAM C. A. W I N D L E , D.Sc, M.D., M.A., F.B.S., Professor of Anatomy in Mason University College, Birmingham, and F. G. PARSONS, F.B.C.S., F.Z.S., F.L.S., Lecturer on Comparative Anatomy at St. Thomas's Hospital and Hunterian Professor in the Boyal College of Surgeons, England. [Eeceived February 9, 1899.] Part I.-MUSCLES OE THE HEAD, NECK, AND FORE LIMB. It has been for some time our intention to gather together the very scattered literature on the subject of Edentate myology, and to check it by a series of dissections of such animals as Ave could collect. Y<le are greatly indebted to this Society, to Professor Stewart of the Boyal College of Surgeons, and to Professor Howes of the Boyal College of Science for giving us opportunities of dissecting specimens in their stores. W e submit that the comparatively large number of records Avhich Ave have been able to bring together as the result of our OAAU dissections and a study of the literature has given us an opportunity of indicating which muscles are constant and which are liable to variation. For this reason we are glad to be able to point out that Ave have several records of most of the existing genera of Edentates. There are T*- O many points on which further information is desirable, and Ave feel that the paper is far fiom complete; still, as the investigation has been lengthy and arduous, it has seemed best to publish this first part and to defer, as in the case of the Carnivora, the generalizations which we intend to offer, until the remainder of the muscles are dealt with, in a second part of this paper. As in former papers, small numerals refer to the list of animals at the commencement of the paper and Boman figures to the bibliography at its end. Those animals in the list against Avhich no author's name is placed have been dissected by ourselves. |