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Show 1877.] MR. A. H. GARROD ON THE MUSK-DEER. 291 Extrema secundinarum attenuata, in cornua uteri filo protensa ; at versus orificium uteri chorion utriusque anastomosi tubulari cohaeret." At the same time he tells us that there were two foetuses in the uterus. Prof. Flower has kindly allowed m e to examine the uterus of the specimen of Moschus moschiferus in the College-of-Surgeons Museum, which was about 2\ years old. From it fig. 4 is taken. It will be Uterus of Moschus moschiferus : the left cornu is opened up longitudinally. seen that there are no cotyledonary papillae at all, the mucous membrane being disposed in narrow longitudinal folds, six in number, of very little'depth, running nearly the whole length of the cornua, slightly broken here and there, but nowhere developing from their free edges the tongue-like processes which form the cotyledonary papillae in ordinary Deer, or the characteristic linearly arranged elevations of the Bovidae. This condition differs from any I have seen in other Ruminant animals ; and I can find no reference to it by other authors. I do not think that m y account of the organ is at all incompatible with that of Pallas, who has laid special stress on the linear nature of the cotyledons. Neither in the Cervidae nor the Cavicornia have I ever found an arrangement which can be compared with it. I do not feel justified in regarding it as indicating a nearer relationship to the one than to the other ; for the number of the plications is opposed to Cervine affinities, whilst their size militates against their polycotyledonary nature. When we consider the genus Moschus in its relations to the other 19* |