56 MI!. K. ir. BUHXE OX THE AISCEKA \Fvh. 7, 



Febvimry 7, 1905. 



HoAVARD iSauxders, Esq., F.L.S., Vice-President 

 in tlie Chair. 



The Secretary exliibitecl, on behalf of the Hon. Walter 

 Rothschild, F.Z.S., a pair of Gorillas, mounted by Mr. Rowland 

 Ward. He remarked tliat these Gorillas appeared to be on the eve 

 of becoming adult, and that they were pi-obably from twelve to 

 thirteen years old. He added that Mr. Rothschild had called his 

 attention to the unusually large red patch on the head of the male, 

 and to the absence of the patch in the female. This diflerence in 

 the coloration of the sexes confirmed Mr. Rothschild's opinion 

 that Gorilla castmieicej^s of Slack Avas not a valid species or 

 subs23ecies, but w^as based on individual variation. 



Mr. Frederick Gillett, F.Z.S., exhibited some mounted heads of 

 the Rocky Mountain Goat {Haploceros montanus). and made the 

 following remailvS : — 



"I have brought here to-night, specimens of the Rocky Mountain 

 Goat, Avith the object of pointing out a gland Avhich lies at the 

 base of each hoiii and acts, one might almost sny, as a pad to it. 

 Under the external skin these glands consist of a soft red tissue 

 saturated Avith a milky substance, like the udder of a cow. In the 

 specimen at our Gaixlens these glands are partially covered up by 

 long hair at the present time, but in Octobei' and ISTovember they 

 are more conspicuous. The older the animal, the more pronounced 

 :a-e the glands." 



Mr. R. H. Burne, F.Z.S., shoAved specimens made for the 

 Royal College of Sui-geons Museum from the Adscera of the Indian 

 Rhinoceros {B. tmicornis), knoAvn as "Jim," that had lately died 

 at the Society's Gardens, and made the folloAving remarks : — 



The specimens include parts of the folloAving organs : 



Stomach *. — A section shoAving the line of demarcation betAveen 

 the cardiac and glandular regions. The epithelium of the cardiac 

 region, as in other Pei-issodactyles, is similar to that of the 

 (esophagus — a stratified epithelium Avith easily separable corneous 

 superficial layer. The deeper parts of the epithelium project into 

 the submucosa in the form of elongated papilla^. These are 

 peculiarly long and I'esemble very closely those in the cesophagus 

 of the Horse. A microscopic section taken from the glandular 

 i-egion of the stomach, 1 ft. in front of the limit of the loAver parts 

 of the cardiac region, shows a deep layer (6 mm.) of peptic glands. 

 The gland-tubules Avere about -04 mm. in diameter. 



A section taken about 1 ft. 6 in. in front of the last, from the 



* Owen, "Asiatomy of the liuliiiii Kliiuoceros," Tvaiis. Zool. Soc. \ul. iv. 1802. 

 p. -l-O. 



