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January 23, 1855. 
Dr. Gray, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following papers were read :— 
1. Notice or tHe Horns AnD SKULL OF THE ARNEE. 
By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S., P.B.S., V.P.Z.S. etc. 
(Mammalia, Pl. XL.) 
Colonel James Matthie has lately presented to the British Mu- 
seum the skull and horns of an Arnee or Buffalo, killed by him near 
Fezpoor, Central Assam, on the 8th of April, 1842. 
The horns are of a very large size, as proved by the accompanying 
measurement, being nearly as large as the separate horns without a 
skull, in the British Museum, which formerly formed part of Sir 
Hans Sloane’s Collections, and were described and figured by him 
in the Philosophical Transactions for 1727, no. 397, p. 222, f. 23. 
These horns are 78 inches, or 6 feet 6 inches long. 
The dimensions of Colonel Matthie’s specimen are as follows, 
according to his measurement. 
ft. in. 
* Length of the skull frém occiput to nose ........ 2 4 
Length of the horns round the outside of them and 
BET ORM SG ive TOTCN PRM: cen oe ania ile nd cle ome cone 12 2 
Length of line from tip to tip of the horns........ ls, 
Circumference of right horn at base ............ 1 84% 
5 » left horn at base.............. [ha ite, 
Width nerost the forehead. os... on op ne souls es os 0 11 
“The horns do not exactly correspond in length and shape.” 
The occipital portion of the skull is very much developed, to give 
enlarged attachment to the muscles of the neck for the support of 
the horns. 
I may observe, that the Arnee of Anderson, Bee, 1792 (the Bos 
arne of Kerr, ‘ Animal Kingdom,’ 336. t. 295, copied into ‘ Shaw, 
Zoology, iv. p.400, t. 210) is only a large horned variety of the 
common Buffalo, with horns nearly regularly curved from the base. 
The horns presented by Colonel Matthie, on the other hand, are 
nearly straight for great part of their length, and only curved at the 
end. In this respect they agree with the horns in the British Mu- 
seum, which Mr. Doyle, whose name is “given to a sort of stuffe 
worn in summer,” discovered in a cellar in Wapping, and which he 
gave to Sir Hans Sloane for his kindness in attending him in sickness. 
These are described by the latter in the ‘ Philosophical Transactions ’ 
for 1727, no. 397, p. 222. f. 23; and re-described and figured by 
Colonel Hamilton Smith as those of Bos Arnee in Griffith, A. K. iv. 
t. 201, 5.2543. 
Dr. Hook read a lecture on Mr. Doyle’s horns at Gresham College, 
and thought they were probably those of the Sukotyro or Sucotaria, 
No. CCLXXXV.—Procerpineés or THE ZOOLOGICAL Society. 
