636 MR. W. A. FORBES ON THE [Nov. 14, 
by anthropologists as acrocephaly, a deformity also in Man associated 
with the premature consolidation of the same sutures as those affected 
in the present specimen, and which, it is supposed, has influenced the 
form of the cranial bones. We have here, then, in all probability, not 
a case of specific or even racial distinction, but one of individual varia- 
tion due to pathological changes at an early period of development. 
Acrocephaly of a precisely similar type occurs sporadically in men 
of all races. The Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons 
possesses good examples of it in a West-African Negro, an Arab, a 
Polynesian, and an Englishman ; but as I believe it has not hitherto 
been observed in any of the Anthropoid Apes, the present specimen 
is one of great interest. 
The following papers were read :— 
1. Supplementary Notes on the Anatomy of the Chinese 
Water-Deer (Hydropotes inermis). By W. A. Forsss, 
B.A., Prosector to the Society. 
[Received July 18, 1882.] 
An adult male of this curious Deer having lately passed through 
my hands, it may be advisable to record my notes on certain of its 
soft parts, on the condition of which the late Prof. Garrod laid 
considerable stress in the classification of the Ruminants, but some 
of which were, I believe, unknown to him, the specimen of Hydro- 
potes described by him! having been a young (in fact still-born) 
example of the opposite sex. 
As regards the male organs of generation, the glans penis is an 
elongated tapering compressed cone, with the urethral opening 
subterminal, thus closely resembling those of Capreolus, Cervulus, 
and Elaphodus. There are no traces of Cowper’s glands, as is also 
the case in the first and last of the three genera just named. In 
these respects, then, Hydropotes resembles most closely Capreolus 
and LElaphodus, and differs from the Rusine Deer, with which, 
according to the views of, Sir Victor Brooke at one time*, in 
part indorsed by Garrod *, it was supposed to have perhaps its 
closest relations. The large “‘rusiform ” Spigelian liver-lobe, which 
was found by the last-named anatomist in the young of Hydropotes, 
and the presence of which he adduced as supporting those views, is, 
however, quite absent in the liver of the present specimen. There 
is a similarly situated “‘ spurious cystic fossa,’ containing, however, 
no gall-bladder, only a minute almost atrophied cord, of apparently 
vascular nature. The caudate lobe is well developed. 
In the rumen of the stomach the villi, where best developed, are 
pretty uniformly filiform, slightly flattened, but not clavate. The 
1 Of, P.Z.S. 1877, p. 789, and Coll. Papers, pp. 422-425. 
2 P.Z.8, 1872, p. 525. 2 Coll. Pap. p. 425. 
