PROCEEDINGS 
OF 'THE 
GENERAL MEETINGS FOR SCIENTIFIC BUSINESS 
OF THE 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
1905, Vol. II. (May to December). 
May 2, 1905. 
Dr. W. T. Buanrorp, C.I.E., F.R.S., Vice-President, 
in the Chair. 
The Seeretary exhibited three large photographs (now in the 
Society’s Library), presented to the Society by Mr. Howard B. 
Turner, of Hippopotamuses swimming in a river in their native 
haunts. ae 
Mr. R. EH. Holding exhibited and made remarks upon a series 
of antlers of the first year of the Roebuck, Red Deer, Fallow Deer, 
and Wapiti. The exhibit had special reference to a paper read 
by Mr. Martin A. C. Hinton at the meeting of the Society held 
on March 21st, on some antlers of the Red Deer (Cervus elaphus) 
which were obtained from the Post-Pliocene deposits in the 
South of England, and in which it was stated that “these antlers 
belonged to individuals that had suffered testicular injury at an 
early period of life, by which the characters of youth were 
retained for a longer period than usual.” 
Mr. Holding pointed out from the specimens exhibited 
(text-fig. 1, p. 2) that the long pedicle, suppression of tines, and 
presence of rudimentary offshoots were characteristic of the 
antlers of all the Cervide at the first year or “ pricket” stage, and 
were not therefore due to testicular injury, and that any inter- 
ference or injury to the generative organs, as in castration, did 
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