1877.) MR. A. H. GARROD ON THE MUSK-DEER. 291 
Extrema secundinarum attenuata, in cornua uteri filo protensa; at 
versus orificium uteri chorion utriusque anastomosi tubulari 
cohzeret.’ At the same time he tells us that there were two foetuses 
in the uterus. 
Prof. Flower has kindly allowed me to examine the uterus of the 
specimen of Moschus moschiferus in the College-of-Surgeons Museum, 
which was about 24 years old. From it fig. 4 is taken, It will be 
Fig. 4. 

Uterus of Moschus moschiferus: the left cornu is opened up 
longitudinally. 
seen that there are no cotyledonary papille at all, the mucous 
membrane being disposed in narrow longitudinal folds, six in number, 
of very little depth, running nearly the whole length of the cornua, 
slightly broken here and there, but nowhere developing from. their 
free edges the tongue-like processes which form the cotyledonary 
papille in ordinary Deer, or the characteristic linearly arranged 
elevations of the Bovide. This condition differs from any I have 
seen in other Ruminant animals; and I can find no reference to it 
by other authors. 
I do not think that my account of the organ is at all incompatible 
with that of Pallas, who has laid special stress on the linear nature 
of the cotyledons. Neither in the Cervids nor the Cavicornia have I 
ever found an arrangement which can be compared with it. I do 
not feel justified in regarding it as indicating a nearer relationship 
to the one than to the other; for the number of the plications is 
opposed to Cervine affinities, whilst their size militates against their 
polycotyledonary nature. 
When we consider the genus Moschus in its relations to the other 
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