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November 28, 1854. 
Dr. Gray, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following papers were read :— 
1. ON A NEW SPECIES OF RHINOCEROS. 
By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S., V.P.Z.S., erc. 
The late Mr. Cross, of Exeter Change and the Surrey Zoological 
Gardens, much prized a specimen of the horn of a Rhinoceros, which 
for many years formed part of his collection, and which he consi- 
dered as indicating the existence of a hitherto unrecorded species of 
that genus. 
At the distribution of his effects, it has become the property of 
the British Museum ; and it is so unlike any other horn of a Rhi- 
noceros that has come under my inspection, that I am induced to 
believe that-Mr. Cross was probably right in his conjecture; and 
Horn of Cross’s Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros Crossii). 
I am inclined to describe the horn, and name the species Rhinoceros 
Crossit, provisionally, after my late friend, an honour he well de- 
serves, from the unvarying kindness which he showed to all who 
were willing to make use of the collection in his possession for scien- 
