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head with the skin on was a load for two coolies. I tried to 

 preserve the skins, but the hair came off, so I was obliged to 

 content myself with the skulls and horns. The hair along the 

 frontal bone, between the bases of the horns of the bull, was about 

 two inches long, greyish-brown, and in heavy curls. 



Elliot gives the following measurements of a fine old bull's horns: 

 circumference at base, 19 J inches; distance between the points, 25 

 inches. The following are the dimensions of the present specimens, 

 as taken by Mr Alston : — 



Skull, length from frontal-ridge, 



" breadth between bases of horns, - 



" breadth between orbits, 

 Horns,length along outside curve, - 



" circumference at base, - 



" breadth between tips, - 



" breadth at widest curve. 



The wearing off of the bull's horns at the tips is a sign of old 

 age and of many combats, and I fancy that this is the skull of a 

 very ancient individual. 



So many sportsmen have given descriptions of the hunting of 

 these animals, as CoL Campbell, "The Old Shekarry," and others, 

 that it is not necessary to enlarge on the subject here. I do not 

 think that complete skulls of Gavceiis gaurus are often to be met 

 with in collections, the size of the horns being so little in pro- 

 portion to that of the skull, that the latter is generally left behind 

 on account of the weight. 



Mr Gray also drew the attention of the meeting to a fine head 

 of the Cape Buffalo {Bubalus caffer), which had been lent for the 

 occasion by the Messrs Yuile, taxidermists, 94 Sauchiehall Street. 



Mr John Young, F.G.S., exhibited a small collection of fossil 

 Brachiopoda, which had been collected last summer, in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Girvan, by Mrs Eobert Gray. The series contained 

 examples of AtrijjM incerta ; Rhjnchonella aimla ; R. Thomsonl ; 

 B. JFeaveri, the first Scottish example ; Orihis Bouchardii, or perhaps 

 a new species, 0. vespertilio; 0. calligramma, var. Scotica; 0. elegan- 

 tula, and another species of Orthis, not yet named; also specimens 

 of Trii)lesia Grayi; Strophomena imbrex ; Leptcena transversaUs, var. 

 Young iana ; L. sericea; L. tenuicinda and Strophomena Grayi, a 

 new and unpublished species. Mr Young stated that the 



