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Newman, E. 1870. The horn of the Indian rhinoceros moveable. Zoologist (2) 5: 2341.

The horn of the Indian rhinoceros moveable

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Location World Subject Morphology Species Greater One-horned Rhino (unicornis)

It is, I believe, an opinion now universally received, that the material of which the horn is composed is exactly the same as hair, that it is in fact neither more nor less than conglomerate hair.

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