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Show 1887.] ANIMALS IN THE SOCIETY'S GARDENS. 365 middle line. It is difficult to imagine how life could continue under such altered conditions of the respiratory and circulatory organs. The next specimen is, so far as I know, unique. It is a well-recognized fact that when rickets affects the skull, the bones most Fig. 2. Under view of the skull-vault of a rickety Lion, with abnormal thickness of the ossific tentorium. attacked are those preformed in membrane. Most of the Lions which have been born alive in the Gardens and survived for any W t h of time have developed rickets. A young Lion which died l -t winter had for some months previous to its death exhibited marked signs of paralysis of tbe hind limbs and back. The paraplegia " P R O C ZOOL. SOC-1887, No. XXV. 25 . |
