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DR. E. KAi" LANKESTER ON OKAPIA. 



VII.— APPENDIX. {Mai/ 21th, 1902.) 



Since this memoir was ready for press (actually in second revise) the Museiim of the 

 Independent State of the Congo received (at the beginning of May) in Brussels, through 

 the agents of the State stationed on the Aruwimi, near Fort Mbeni, the place where 

 Sir Harry Johnston's specimen was obtained, a skin of an adult female Okapi, and 

 a nearly complete skeleton of an adult male. The actual locality from which the 

 specimens come is stated to be Mawambi. Dr. Forsyth Major has been entrusted by 

 the authorities of the Congo Independent State with the study and description of these 



Text-fis. 15. 



Skull of adult male Okapi. Outline drawn from the skull of the adult male belonging to the 

 Museum of the Independent State of the Congo. 



The drawing represented the left side, but has been reversed for comparison with the figures iu the present 

 memoir. Note the large ossicusps ; the divided praelacrj'mal fossa ; the molars, of which the first ujiper 

 premolar is lost ; and the defective canines and incisors. 



important specimens, and has been to Brussels to examine the material. The skull 

 and various bones of the adult male have been sent to him in London since his return, 

 for further examination. I owe an opportunity of examining the skull to the 

 courtesy of Dr. Forsyth Major, who is carrying on his work on the subject here, in 

 the Natural History Museum. 



A full account of the new specimens will be published by Dr. Forsyth Major in the 

 Memoirs of the Museum of the Congo State. It is not of course to be expected that I 

 should here anticipate the interesting results which will be given in Dr. Forsyth Major's 

 full account of the new specimens, but I am able to state a few of the more striking 



