ON GROWTH OF ANTLERS. 



Volume III. 



815 



Mr. R. E. Holding exhibited a number of antlers, skulls, and 

 photographs ilkxstrating variations in the gx^owth of the Antlers of 

 Deer, and stated that antlers wei'e liable to considerable variation 

 in form, due either to exuberance or proliferation of growth, or 

 to congenital defect in the embryonic stage as in the case of the 

 " Hummer' or Hornless Stag (text-fig. 134 A), which occasionally 

 made its appearance in Scottish and continental Deer forests. 



