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Show 708 MR. A. H. GARROD ON THE VISCERAL ANATOMY [Nov. 6, Mr. E. Gerrard has kindly lent me the skull for examination. In its base it exhibits the characteristic peculiarities of the species so clearly enunciated by Prof. Flower1, the vomer being free behind and developed into a tongue-shaped process; the mesopterygoid fossa being expanded, and the free ends of the pterygoids everted at the same time that they are broad. No second combing-plate is present on the uncut first upper molar tooth. The animal is too young to be contrasted advantageously with Prof. Peters's drawing2 of Rhinoceros inermis, Lesson. I have, however, taken the opportunity of comparing that figure with the skulls of R. sondaicus in the College-of-Surgeons' Museum, and fail to see Fig. 1. Mucous surface of duodenum of Bhinoceros sondaicus. that there are sufficient differences to justify specific differentiation. Prof. Flower had previously done the same, and had arrived at a similar conclusion, as he found that even greater differences than those pointed out hy Prof. Peters are to be detected in individuals which are all undoubtedly of Indo-Malay origin. 1 P.Z.S. 1876, p. 447. 2 Monatsb, der konigl. Akad, zu Berlin, 1877, p 68, pl, ii. |