1896.] ON A rOETEAIT Or AHTIlllOPOPITHECUS GOUILLA. 697 



(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 ou to the baclt; 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. II. Floweb, K.C.B., LL.D., r.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



Mr. Sclater exhibit-ed a Daguerreotype portrait of what was 

 believed to be the first Gorilla {Anthropopithecus gorilla) that was 

 ever brouglit 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. Wombwelj, 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 to the Leeds Museum. Out of the skin of this Gorilla, 

 Waterton manufactured a figiu'e with two horns ou the head, which 

 he called Martin Luther, aud 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. 



' [May 22ncl. — This specimen died, and was sent to the British Museum. 

 Mr. Bouleiiger examined it and kindl.v reports as loUows: — "The uterus con- 

 tained a good number of ripe ova, so that only a few could Iiave been laid when 

 the male abandoned the female. The ovipositor, formed bj' the cloaca, was 

 still protruding and much inflamed. It may be deduced from the observation 

 made by Tennant, that fecundation must take ])lace 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 inio the oviducts, the eggs being laid 

 in the impregnated condition, as in tailed Batrachians." — P. L. S.] 



