590 



3555. A section of the left ramus of the lower jaw of the same Fallow-deer, with 

 the molar series. Hunterian. 



3556. The bones of the anterior extremity of a Fallow-deer (Cervus Dama). 



Hunterian. 



3557. The bones of the posterior extremity of the same Fallow-deer. Hunterian. 



3558. The antlers of a Fallow-deer (Cervus Dama), from which half of each testicle 

 had been removed soon after birth. 



These were shed when the animal had passed its fourth year. The absorbing process has 

 excavated the base of each antler above the level of the burr, leaving a rough flat surface. 

 The antlers were annually formed and shed in this instance, but without acquiring their 

 normal size, and with the difference in the degree and direction of the absorbent action 

 exhibited by the base of the present specimens as compared with No. 3544. It is observed 

 by the Keeper at Oulton Park, that bucks, semicastrated, as in the present instance, go into 

 rut, but not to that degree which produces emaciation, as in entire bucks. 



Presented by Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Eyerton, Bart., M.P. 



3559. The antlers of a Fallow-deer (Cervus Dama), from which the testes, but not 

 the spermatic cords, had been removed soon after it was born. 



The antlers were formed and shed annually in this instance : they differed from those of 

 the entire deer in being somewhat smaller and retained longer : when shed, the absorbed 

 surface at the base of the antler was always carried internally above the level of the burr, 

 and was flat or slightly concave. The present pair of antlers were shed when the ' hevier,' 

 as such castrated bucks are termed, was five years old. 



Presented by Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton, Sari., M.P. 



3560. The left antler of the same castrated Fallow-deer (Cervus Dama}, which was 

 killed in its sixth year, October 25th, 1837. 



The antlers had retained their velvet full two months longer than the entire bucks usually 

 do in the same park (Oulton, Cheshire). 



Presented by Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton, Bart., M.P. 



3561. The antlers of a Fallow-deer (Cervus Dama}. 



They were shed in October 1837; the buck having been castrated in the month of August in 

 the same year, when the same antlers were clean or burnished ; that is, had cast their vascular 

 integument. The effect of castration upon these appendages was manifested by their speedy 

 fall and by the activity of the absorbent process producing it, which has left a slightly con- 



