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Show 1903.] ON A NEW FORM OF GRANT'S GAZELLE. 119 Zool. Soc. supra, p. 2, there is a figure of a skull of a showing small supernumerary horns on the pedicle, and, although the horns of the Roebuck vary more than do other Cervine horns, examples of four horns are rare. Dr. A. S. Woodward, F.R.S., exhibited photographs by Dr. Otto Herz, illustrating the discovery and exhumation of a Mammoth in the Government of Jakutsk, Siberia. He also made remarks on the specimen, which has now been mounted in the Zoological Museum at St. Petersburg under the direction of Dr. Salensky. Mr. Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S., exhibited some remarkable Gazelle skulls and horns from German East Africa, which had been contributed to the National Museum by Messrs. F. Russell Roberts and C. E. Blaine. The specimens belonged to the Gazella granti type, but their horns were each completely twisted round inwards, as shown in the figures (text-figs. 10, 11), so that the tips pointed backwards Text-fig. 10. Skull and horns of Gazella granti robertsi. (Front view.) and outwards and were very far apart. The twisting was spread over the whole length of the horn, and being in the direction characteristic of domestic as opposed to wild Bovidpe, gave to the animals a remarkably goat-like appearance. In the female the horns were also twisted, although not so strongly as in the male. Writing from Mwansa, German East Africa, Mr. Roberts |