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ANIMALS IN THE SOCIETY S GARDENS. 



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miJdle line. It is difficult to imagine how life could continue under 

 such altered conditions of the respiratory and circulatory organs. 



The next specimen is, so far as I know, unique, it is a weil- 

 recognized fact that when rickets affects the skull, the bones most 



Fig. 2. 



Under view of the skull-vault of a rickety Liou, witli ubnuruial 

 thickness of the ossific tentoriiun. 



attacl<ed are those preformed in membrane. Most of the Lions 

 whicli have been born alive in the Gardens and survived for any 

 length of time have developed rickets. A young Lion which died 

 last winter had for some months previous to its death exhibited 

 marked signs of paralysis of the hind limbs and back. The paraplegia 



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