On the auditory ossicles of Rhytina stelleri / by Alban Doran ; (communicated by W.H. Flower).

  • Doran, Alban H. G. (Alban Henry Griffiths), 1849-1927.
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[1883]
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Credit: On the auditory ossicles of Rhytina stelleri / by Alban Doran ; (communicated by W.H. Flower). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [Extractedfrom the Linnean Society's Journal - Zoology, vol. xvii.] On the Auditory Ossicles of Rhytina Stelleri. By Alban Doran, F.R.C.S. (Communicated by Professor W. H. Flower, F.E.S., F.L.S.) [Read December 20, 1883.] In a recent monograph contributed to this Society and published in its Transactions*, I described the characters of the auditory ossicles of the Mammalia, having succeeded in procuring for the purposes of description and study a very large series of these little bones, which now constitute a special collection, preserved in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. It was only with regard to a very few species indeed that I was com- pelled to rely upon descriptions found in the works of compara- tive anatomists; for where the vast resources of the College, kindly placed at my disposal by Professor Flower, failed to en- lighten me, I generally succeeded in borrowing the desired ossicles from other collections. In describing the ear-bones of the Sirenia, however, I had to rely entirely on description in the case of Rhy- tina, my source of information being a paper by Claudius entitled “ Das Gehororgan von Rhytina Stelleripublished in the ‘Me- moires de l’Academie des Sciences de St. Petersbourg,’ 1867. Claudius describes the malleus very clearly ; but ever since the publication of my own monograph, I have been seeking an oppor- * “ Morphology of the Mammalian OBsicula auditus,” Linn. Soc. Trane. 2nd