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Show PROCEEDINGS OF THE G EN E R A L MEETINGS FOR SCIENTIFIC BUSINESS OF TII1S ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 1905, Vol. II. (May to December). May 2, 1905. Dr. W. T. B lanford, O.I.E., F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. The Secretary exhibited three large photographs (now in the Society's Library), presented to the Society by Mr. Howard B. Turner, of Hippopotamuses swimming in a river in their native haunts. Mr. R. E. Holding exhibited and made remarks upon a series of antlers of the first year of the Roebuck, Red Deer, Fallow Deer, and Wapiti. The exhibit had special reference to a paper read by Mr. Martin A. C. Hinton at the meeting of the Society held on March 21st, on some antlers of the Red Deer (Cervus elaphus) which were obtained from the Post-Pliocene deposits in the South of England, and in which it was stated that " these antlers belonged to individuals that had suffered testicular injury at an early period of life, by which the characters of youth were retained for a longer period than usual." Mr. Holding pointed out from the specimens exhibited (text-fig. 1, p. 2) that the long pedicle, suppression of tines, and presence of rudimentary offshoots were characteristic of the antlers of all the Cervidce at the first year or " pricket " stage, and were not therefore due to testicular injury, and that any interference or injury to the generative organs, as in castration, did Proo. Z ool. Soc.--1905, Vol. II. No. I. 1 |
