1896.] ON A PORTRAIT OF ANYHROPOPITHECUS GORILLA. 597 
(see fig. 1, p. 595), the hind parts of the males extending beyond those 
of the females. On the following morning Tennant, the keeper, 
arrived in time to witness the mode in which the eggs were 
deposited. The oviduct of the female protruded ‘from her body 
more than an inch in length, and the bladder-like protrusion being 
retroverted passed under the belly of the male on to her own back. 
The male appeared to press tightly upon this protruded bag and to 
squeeze it from side to side, apparently pressing the eggs forward 
one by one on to the back of the female. By this movement the eggs 
were spread with nearly uniform smoothness over the whole surface 
of the back of the female, to which they became firmly adherent 
(see fig. 2, p. 596). On the operation being completed, the males 
left their places on the females, and the enlarged and projected 
oviduct gradually disappeared from one of the females. In the 
other female, the oviduct appears not to have discharged the whole 
of the eggs. At any rate it remains distended, as shown in the 
figure, but is gradually shrinking in size *. 
May 19, 1896. 
Sir W. H. Viower, K.C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., President, 
in the Chair. 
Mr. Sclater exhibited a Daguerreotype portrait of what was 
believed to be the first Gorilla (Anthropopithecus gorilla) that was 
ever brought alive to Europe. This portrait had been lent to 
Mr. Bartlett by Mr. Alexander Fairgrieve, formerly connected 
with Wombwell’s Menagerie. The animal in question was im- 
ported to Liverpool from the Congo by the late Mr. Hulse, animal 
dealer, in 1855. It was a young female, and was called “ Jenny.” 
Mr. Hulse sold it to Mrs. Wombwell, who kept it several months 
and made a pet of it. On its death the body was sent to the late 
Charles Waterton of Walton Hall, who preserved the skin and sent 
the skeleton tothe Leeds Museum. Out of the skin of this Gorilla, 
Waterton manufactured a figure with two horns on the head, which 
he called Martin Luther, and exhibited in his gallery at Walton 
Hall. Mr. Bartlett, on seeing this stuffed figure at Walton Hall, 
had immediately recognized it as being that of a young Gorilla. 
Mr. Sclater called attention to the fact that the large chalk 
drawing of the Gorilla hung in the Society’s Meeting-room re- 
presented this same specimen, which was stated on the label of the 
picture to have been living in Mr. Wombwell’s Menagerie. 
1 [May 22nd.—This specimen died, and was sent to the British Museum. 
Mr. Boulenger examined it and kindly reports as follows :—“ The uterus con- 
tained a good number of ripe ova, so that only a few could have been laid when 
the male abandoned the female. The ovipositor, formed by the cloaca, was 
still protruding and much inflamed. It may be deduced from the observation 
made by Tennant, that fecundation must take place before the extrusion of the 
eggs, and it is probable that the ovipositor serves in the first instance to collect 
the spermatozoa which would penetrate into the oviducts, the eggs being laid 
in the impregnated condition, as in tailed Batrachians.’—P. L. S.] 
