PROCEEDINGS 



GENERAL MEETINGS FOR SCIENTIFIC BUSINESS 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



1905, Vol. II. (May to December). 



May 2, 1905. 



Dr. W. T. Blanford, C.I.E., F.R.S., Yice- President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Secretary 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. 



Mr. R. E. 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 (Cervics 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 Cervidce 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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