ANIMALS IN THE SOCIETY S GARDENS. 



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middle line. It is difficult to imagine how life could continue under 

 such altered conditions of the respiratory and circulatory organs. 



The next specimen is, so far as I know, unique, it is a well- 

 recognized fact that when rickets affects the skull, the bones most 



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Under view of the skvill-vault of a rickety Lion, with abuoruial 

 thickness of the ossific tentoriuin. 



attacked are those preformed in membrane. Most of the Lions 

 which have been born alive in the Gardens and survived for any 

 length of time have developed rickets. A young Lion which died 

 last winter had for some months previous to its death exhibited 

 marked signs of paralysis of the hind limbs and back. The paraplegia 

 Proc. iZoob. Soc— 1887, No. XXV. 2^ 



