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The Journal of Agriculture, and Transactions of the Highland 
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Monday, January 1865. 
Sir DAVID BKEWSTEIi, President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. Exhibition of Three Skulls of the Gorilla, received from 
M. Du Chaillu, with Observations relative to their Ana- 
tomical Features. By Dr Burt and Mr W. Turner. 
After placing on the table a series of three crania of the gorilla 
{Troglodytes gorilla), which he had a short time ago received from 
