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longest 'in Scotland before its final extinction. And Pro- 

 fessor Nilssen of Lund believes that the Bos primigenius was 

 found in a wild or half-wild state in the forests of central 

 Europe down even to the beginning or middle of the sixteenth 

 century. (See papers on the Extinct and Existing Animals 

 of Scandinavia," in " Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History," 1849.) 



Dr J. A. Smith exhibited the skull of a sheep (a wether) 

 which, from the singular variety in the form of its horns, had 

 been sent by Mr Sanderson, bird-stuffer, George Street. The 

 horns were closely adjoining each other at the base, in the 

 centre of the forehead, as in the buffalo, and from this point 

 they were bent outwards and upwards like those of the ox. 



The Society then adjourned to next winter session. 



