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ment by dissection, and I have preserved the separated portion in a 

 dried state. This young male giraffe was only about six weeks old. 



" 2. In another young male giraffe, which died at the Zoological 

 Society's Gardens on the 2nd of December, J 859, the fibrous sub- 

 integumentary aponeurosis was still more markedly thickened, but 

 there was as yet no development of a gristly cartilagenous tissue within 

 its substance. This giraffe was born on the 6th of July, 1859, and 

 was therefore about five months old. I have given an account of the 

 accidental circumstances which led to its death, together with the 

 anatomical peculiarities it presented, in a paper entitled ' Contributions 

 to the Anatomy of the Giraffe,' published in the Zoological Society's 

 Proceedings' for February 14th, 1860. 



" 3. In an immature male giraffe, which died at Edinburgh during 

 the severe winter of 1854, I found the frontal aponeurotic thickening 

 much more marked, forming on the dried skull a distinct fibrous mass. 

 I subsequently detached this fibro-cartilaginous matrix for separate 

 preservation and examination, but it was, I believe, swept away with 

 other museum debrishy an assistant who had no knowledge of its value. 

 After removal it was perfectly transparent and free from osseous de- 

 posit. The giraffe in question belonged to Wombwell's travelling 

 menagerie, and was represented to me as being about eighteen months 

 old. Having, at the outset, devoted three weeks to its dissection, and 

 renewed my examinations of the various organs at subsequent intervals, 

 I may, for further particulars respecting its anatomy, death, &c, refer 

 to my several memoirs in the ' Edinburgh Physiological Society's Re- 

 ports' for 1854, the 'Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal' for 1856, 

 and more particularly to the June number of the ' Annals of Natural 

 History' for 1854. 



"4, When engaged, during the autumn of 1856, in writing the 

 article 'Ruminantia' for the 4 Supplement' to Dr. Todd's 'Cyclopedia 

 of Anatomy and Physiology,' I took occasion to visit the Museum of 

 Trinity College, Dublin, expressly with the view of examining the 

 adult cranium of a fine male giraffe, which I understood to be pre- 

 served there. As a result of this inspection I subsequently wrote as 

 follows: — 'Through the kindness of Dr. Ball we have examined the 

 skeleton of a male giraffe, which died at the Dublin Zoological Society's 

 Gardens, and which is now preserved in Dr. Harrison's anatomical 

 museum. In this individual the central cranial eminence is not 

 smooth as in our specimen (above referred to) ; on the contrary it is 

 particularly rough, owing to the deposition of osseous nodules, which 

 bear a marked resemblance to the irregular bony lamina) prolonged 

 from the attenuated margins of the bases of the true horns. If these 



