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The Museum Gazette 



identified during the foray, including twenty-five mycetozoa. 

 Four plates, three coloured, accompany the Transactions. 



Amongst the species depicted we may mention Polystictus 

 montagnei, a new British species found near Haslemere in 

 1898, and Spavassis laminosa (also a new British record) found 

 by Mr. Douglas Taylor on the occasion of the Society's visit 

 to Woolmer Forest on September 26, last. 



Full particulars respecting the Society may be obtained of 

 the Hon. Secretary, Carelton Rea, Esq., B.C.L., M.A., at 

 34, Foregate Street, Worcester. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



{These descriptions are adapted for Museum Labels, and they may 

 be had separately.'] 



SKULL OF MONTJAC, OR BARKING DEER. 



The skull of the little Montjac, or Barking deer, is of 

 interest as showing better than any other the relation of the 

 antler to its pedestal. The pedestal is very long and the 

 antler very small. The latter usually possesses only two 

 tines, the main one and a short stout one which grows near 

 its base. From the front of the pedestal there runs a strong 

 bony ridge down the outer border of the frontal bone as far as 

 the junction with the nasal. This evidently gives strength to 

 the prolonged and rather slender pedestal . 



SKULL OF A LLAMA (Camel of America). 



The skull of the Llama resembles that of the Camel, and 

 both differ from those of the other ruminants in having incisor 

 teeth in the upper jaw. " These teeth are placed at the 

 side of the intermaxillary bone close to the canines, and agree 

 with them in form " (Van der Hoven, vol. ii., 644). 



" There are six incisors only in the lower jaw, and this 

 jaw is undivided." 



The camels and llamas form transition species between 

 horses and oxen (ruminants and solid-ungulates). 



