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OP TIIK 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



1904, Vol. II. (May to December). 



May 3, 1904. 



G, A. BouLENGER, Esq., F.R.S., Yice- President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Secretary exhibited, on behalf of Dr. Graham Kenshaw, 

 F.Z.S., an outlijae-drawing of a young African Elephant showing 

 an unusual development of the hairy covering of the body. 

 Dr. Renshaw had supplied the following notes on the specimen 

 in question : — " The Elephant was a small calf presented by 

 M. Verreaux to the Jardin des Plantes Museum, Paris, the locality 

 being somewhat loosely given as ' the Cape of Good Hope.' No 

 date appeared on the label, but as a skeleton of a female Rhinoceros 

 simus (mounted in the adjoining gallery of Comparative Anatomy) 

 was labelled ' Ed. Verreaux, 1846,' perhaps it might be assumed 

 that the Elephant was also presented about that date. In any case, 

 it had evidently been in the collection for very many years. The 

 hairy covering showed a remarkable development in many parts of 

 the body. In this specimen the tusks had not begun to appear at 

 the time of death. It would be very interesting to ascertain if 

 these abnormally hairy individuals tend to lose this covering with 

 advancing years. Similar instances have been noted in the 

 Indian species, and brought to the notice of the Zoological 

 Society. Thus, I understand that a photograph of a mother and 

 calf, taken in Ceylon and showing considerable development of 

 hair, was exhibited at a former meeting of the Society ; that 

 attention was also di-awn to an individual (sold in 1 882) which 



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