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museums, many being without any history attached. 

 Of these the finest skull appears to be that of 

 the aged individual brought home by Gordon 

 Cumming, and now in the Royal College of 

 Surgeons' Museum. The record anterior horn 

 (62% inches) was also obtained by Cumming, and 

 is now in the possession of his relative, Col. W. 

 Gordon Cumming. Some interest attaches to the 

 series of simus horns in the National Collection, 

 which includes Sir H. Sloane's kabaoba specimen 

 already referred to, and also the pair of kabaoba 

 trophies on which the so-called R. oswellii was 

 founded. The latter are of course remarkable for 

 the forward inclination of the anterior horn, and 

 were obtained by Andersson. He presented them 

 to Col. T. Steele, who gave them to the British 

 Museum previous to 1843. They are figured in 

 Andersson's "Lake Ngami " ; the front horn 

 measures 3 1 inches, and the posterior one 1 1 

 inches. The student will find a very fine anterior 

 horn of the mohohu type displayed in the Index 

 Collection of the Natural History Museum. 



Finally, I may mention my own specimen, 

 brought home a year or two back from South 

 Africa by Mr. Penfold, an engineer working on 

 the railway near Buluwayo. It is an anterior horn 

 of the mohohu type, said to have been picked up 

 amongst the sedges of a river. One may reason- 

 ably conclude that it had dropped out of some 



