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Show 960 MR. ST. GEORGE MIVART ON THE LEMURIDAE. [DeC. 12, The liver is thus formed on the same general principle as that of Tragulus, but it is rather more simple ; the fissure between the right and left lobe and that for the gall-bladder are less deep. The middle accessory lobe is broader and shorter and less distinctly marked off from the rest of the organ; and, especially, the right accessory lobe is relatively larger. [Postscript.- Since these notes were communicated to the Society, I have had an opportunity, through the kindness of Professor Huxley, of examining the body of an adult female Hyomoschus, sent to him in spirit from the west coast of Africa. In all its principal anatomical characters it agreed perfectly with the specimen above described. The larynx was of the same form and dimensions. In the stomach the rudimentary psalterium, as distinguished from the abomasus by the different character of its lining membrane, was equally distinct. The vagina was 5 inches in length; the uterus 3\ inches to the point of bifurcation, sharply bent back on itself near the upper end, and terminated in a pair of rather short, closely curled cornua.-February 1st, 1868.] 2. Additional Notes on the Osteology of the Lemurida?. By S T . G E O R G E M I V A R T , F . L . S V Lecturer on Comparative Anatomy at St. Mary's Hospital. When, in November 1864, I had the honour of laying before the Zoological Society m y notes on the crania and dentition of the Le-muridee*, I regretted m y inability to determine certain points, owing to the want of the requisite specimens. During a recent visit to Paris I have had, through the kindness of Professor Milne-Edwards and of his son M . Alphonse Milne- Edwards, the opportunity of supplying some of these omissions by an examination of the specimens preserved in the National Collections at the Jardin des Plantes. In addition to this, since m y return, M. Alphonse Milne-Edwards has had the great kindness to have extracted from the skin and sent to me the bones of a specimen of the Cheirogaleus furcifer of Isid. Geoff. St. Hilaire, including the tarsus-a part I so much regretted, three years ago, not being able then to examine. The specimen in question forms part of the extremely valuable collection lately brought from Madagascar by M . Alfred Grandidier, a gentleman to whom science is very much indebted already, but who, in spite of the attractions of a Society he is so well calculated to adorn, has just again set out for three years' more labour in the same interesting field of biological research. Amongst the zoological rarities preserved at Paris, and as yet absent from our own collections, is the skeleton of Hapalemur. This * P. Z. S. 1864, p. 611. |
