78 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 



these bone heaps, these animals doubtless furnished one of the 

 most important articles of food for these primitive people. 

 For figures and descriptions of some of these curious imple- 

 ments made from bones of deer, see the Journal of the Cin- 

 cinnati Society of Natural History, Vol. Ill, 1880. 



There is also a fine collection of these bone implements pre- 

 served in the Museum of the Society in Cincinnati. 



The following records show the occurrence of the species 

 in the State since 1825. In History of Knox County, Hill says : 



"Deer were abundant in Harrison Township in 1835. John 

 Schooler shot twenty-three that fall. Last one killed by David 

 Ash on farm now owned by Geo. Milligan, in 1834. Deer were 

 killed in Brown Township as late as 1810." 



Dr. Kirtland, in Ohio Zoological Report for 1839, says : 

 "The common deer is comparatively rare." 



Eugene F. Cranz, Ira, Ohio, says : "The last deer was killed 

 in this vicinity in 1841." 



Geo. M. Austin, Wilmington, Ohio, says : "The last one was 

 killed here by Jas. Hartman, in Adams Township, in 1863." 



Mr. S. R. Grimes, of Mineral Springs, Adams Co., Ohio, 

 writes me, December 16, 1905, in regard to deer in Ohio, as 

 follows: "The last deer killed in this neighborhood was in 

 1884. Forty years ago deer were very plentiful here. There 

 was a deer lick on the ground where this hotel now stands. 

 Twenty miles east of here, in Scioto Co., at Friendship P. O., 

 deer were killed in winter of 1904. I am told there are yet a 

 few deer in the extensive forests extending from the Ohio 

 River into Pike Co., through Scioto and Adams Cos., into 

 Ross Co." 



Mr. W. F. Henninger says. "In the fall of 1900 three or four 

 deer came up from Kentucky through Adams Co. Lost track 

 of them near Greenville." 



Henry Moor shot a deer in Pike Co. in 1852. 



E. L. Smith, Berea, Ohio, says: "Last deer killed here in 

 1855." 



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