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Show 1899.] MR. LYDEKKER O N CERVUS DUVAUCELI. 829 Mr. Sclater also stated that he had given an address at a Meeting of the South African Philosophical Society at Capetown on September 17th, " On the desirability of establishing a Zoological Garden in Capetown," and that the Society had appointed a Committee to consider the subject. Mr. Sclater was in hopes that this movement might ultimately lead to good results. Mr. Lydekker exhibited the mounted head of a remarkably fine Swamp-Deer (Cervus duvauceli), shot by Major C. B. Wood, of Toms Hill, Aldbury, Tring, on the 5th of January, 1899, in the '...'''; y.'-'V Head of Swamp-Deer (Cervus duvauceli) from Central Provinces, India. Central Provinces, India. The specimen was noticeable on account of the approximation of the antlers to those of that variety of the Thameny known as C. eldi platyceros. This was P R O C ZOOL. Soc-1899, No. LIV. 54 |