'628 MR. F. E. BEDDARD ON A [May 29 



Feet, inches. 

 From the muzzle to the root of the tail following' 



the line of the back 3 5 



From the muzzle to the interspace of the horns ... 9 



From the horns to the ternoination of the mane 



at the shoulder 1 9| 



Lengt^h of the back, from the mane to the root of 



the tail 10| 



From the base of scapula to the end of the fore- 

 hoof (in straight line) 2 9g 



From the base of scapula to olecranon 10 



From the olecranon to the carpus 9| 



From the carpus to the end of the hoof 1 3 



Length of neck from occipital to anterior edge of 



scapula placed vertically 1 3 



Length of back from anterior edge of scapula to 



root of tail 1 1| 



Length of hind limb from superior border of ilium 



to end of hoof, measured in a straight line ... 2 6^ 



From border of ilium to fabella 9 



From patella to calcaneum 11 



From calcaneum to end of hoof 1 4 



In comparing these measurements, we may note first of all that 

 -the foetus described here is exactly half the length of the newly 

 born Giraffe measured by Owen in the year 1839. 



It is remarkable to find, from a further compaiison of these 

 measurements, that there is a serious discrepancy between the 

 relative lengths of the neck and body in the foetus examined by 

 myself and in the newly born animal measured by Owen " a few 

 minutes after its birth." According to the latter, the length of 

 the back from the end of the mane to the root of the tail is 

 considerably more than the length of the nock. According to my 

 own measurement (with which, as will be seen, the drawing made 

 independently of my own measurements agrees) the back is 

 shorter than the neck. I feel convinced that, though I may 

 have erred in failing to arrive at an extreme accuracy of measure- 

 ment, so great an error cannot have crept in. 



The hairy covering of the foetus was in more than one respect 

 interesting. At first sight it appeared to be for the greater part 

 without hair at all. Examination with a lens, however, showed 

 fine, very pale-coloured hairs everywhere in those tracts which a 

 superficial study would pronounce to be naked. This very delicate 

 hairy covering was, however, manifest vipon the neck and legs as 

 a whitish bloom when the skin was comparatively dry, not, how- 

 ever, upon the trunk and flanks. In those regions where the 

 hair was thus evident without the use of a lens the hairs were 

 naturally longer ; still they had the same whitish colour, and 

 the suggestion given is as if the neck and feet, and especially the 

 feet, had been powdered. 



