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EXHIBITIONS AND NOTICES. 



May 10th, 1921. 



Dr. A. Smith Woodward, LL.D., F.R.S., Yice-Piesident, 

 in the Chair. 



Sir S. F. Harmer, K.B.E., F.R.S., exhibited a naounted spe- 

 cinaen of a young female Rhinoceros sondaicus, the one-horned 

 " Javan Rhinoceros," presented by T. R. Hubback, who shot it in 

 Lower Tenasserim, to the British Museum (Natural History). 

 Attention was called to the absence of a horn in the female, a 

 character which Mr. Hubback believes to be normal. A young 

 male of this species, from Java, was formerly exhibited in the 

 Society's Grardens, and was described by Dr. P. L. Sclater, F.R.S. 

 (P. Z. S. 1874, p. 182 ; Trans. Z. S. ix. p. 649). Although osteo- 

 logical material is to be found in various Museums, there appear 

 to be extremely few mounted specimens in existence. The Javan 

 Rhinoceros, which formerly ranged from Assam to Lower Bengal, 

 the Malay Peninsula, and Java, has become increasingly rare 

 during recent years, and it is in urgent need of protection. Its 

 occurrence in Sumatra and Borneo has been questioned, but 

 reference was made to the statements of W. Volz (' Nord- 

 Sumatra,' vol. ii. p. 372, Berlin, 1912), as proving its occurrence, 

 in limited numbers, in North Sumatrtx. 



Mr. Thos, Gerrard, F.Z.S., exhibited, and made remarks 

 upon, a series of photographs of the skeleton of an old male Kivu 

 Gorilla {Qorilla gorilla heringeri Matschie), the property of Lord 

 Rothschild, and also a series of photographs showing the milk- 

 dentition in the skull of a young African Elephant. 



On behalf of Lord Rothschild, Mr. Gerrard exhibited a speci- 

 men of a male Kivu Gorilla {Gorilla gorilla heringeri Matschie) 

 mounted by Messrs. Rowland Ward, and stated that it differed 

 from the other races of Gorilla externally by its long, thick 

 pelage, intense black colouring, and the large fleshy protuber- 

 ance on the top of the head, which often measured 6 inches by 

 6 inches {i. e. width and height). The skull was much wider at 

 the occiput even than in O. gorilla matschiei Rothschild. The 

 specimen was a very aged male, long past the age of repro- 

 duction, and was found solitary, several miles from the two herds 

 inhabiting the region. The specimen was of great pathological 



