The Haslemere Museum Gazette, Vol. 1, No. 2, June 1906: A Journal of Objective Education and Field-StudyVarious
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The Haslemere Museum Gazette, Vol. 1, No. 2, June 1906: A Journal of Objective Education and Field-Study
Various
Natural history -- Periodicals
The specimens collected were exhibited in the Museum. The exhibition
was a record one as regards the number of species, as no less than four
hundred and eighty-five were 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 _Sparassis
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.
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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).
THE HORNS OF A GNU.
The Gnu’s horns are alike in both species and may be known at a glance
by their hook-like curves. They pass outwards and downwards and then
suddenly curve upwards and forwards. They resemble those of buffaloes
and perhaps most closely those of the American bison. They are never
very large, and always black. They are of fibrous structure and of
large girth at their bases, emulating those of the buffaloes. The Gnu
in some of its features resembles a little horse, possessing a mane
and having its face, tail, and hindquarters much like those of a pony.
It has, however, a cleft hoof and a beard which, as well as its horns,
distinguish it from the horse family.
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