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It was suggested that malformed horns due to injuries had 

 led to the creation of species, afterwards found to be invaUd. 



Dr. Sclater also recorded the fact that in 1874 Jamrach 

 imported a young rhinoceros from Calcutta, said to have been 

 obtained in the Munipore district. It was offered to the 

 Society, but after examining the animal, and being confirmed 

 by the opinions of Bartlett and Garrod, he came to the con- 

 clusion that it was a young Sondaic rhinoceros. The animal 

 was afterwards purchased for the Berlin Garden, and Dr. 

 Peters carefully examined and quite agreed with the identifi- 

 cation. The author added in a note : " This conclusion did not 

 please Mr. Jamrach, who in October, 1874, printed an account 

 of the supposed new species on a sheet of green paper, and 

 proposed to call it R. jamrachii* 



The tenth volume, published in 1879, contained sixteen 

 papers, among which was the last of Owen's series on Dinornis ; 

 Mivart dealt with the Axial Skeleton of Struthious Birds, and 

 of the Pelecanidm ; Parker with the Skull of ^githognathous 

 Birds, and Bay Lankester with the Hearts of Ceratodus, 

 Protopterus, and Chimcera ; and Garrod described the Manatee. 



* This instance of a* describer naming an animal after himself is not, as one 

 would naturally imagine, unique, or, indeed, the first of its kind. Gordon 

 Gumming described an East African form of the bushbuck, and with what the 

 authors of the "Book of Antelopes" call "characteristic audacity," named it 

 after himself. He shot a "princely old buck," and ** christened him the ' Antelopus 

 Toualeynei,' or ' Bushbuck of the Limpopo.' " Gordon Cumming's first name was 

 Koualeyn. 



