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lons^est '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. 
