of blood tlirougli the arterial circulation, as has been 

 correctly stated by John Hunter in his work on the 

 blood, and copied into the Penny Cyclopaedia, but this 

 is a part of the subject, which I need not dwell on, 

 and beg to refer the reader to the work named for 

 further information. Shortly after shedding the first 

 horns, the formation of the second takes place accord- 

 ing to the same process, and these are shed in the 

 latter end of April or beginning of May, when they 

 will have attained a length of nearly two feet, or 

 perhaps more ; these in turn drop oflP, to be again 

 renewed, and thus the same process is continued for 

 a series of years, except some casualty should happen 

 to his head, or generative powers, whereby the growth 

 of horns becomes immediately arrested, as has been 

 clearly and satisfactorily proved. 



Several years since there came into my possession a 

 young male red deer, only a few days old. Just then the 

 Rev. J. Boyce, (or as he was familiary termed stag-hunter 

 Boyce,) happened to pass through Lynton, on his 

 journey to Porlock, and I had some conversation with 

 him respecting stag-hunting and the red deer. Knowing 

 him to be the oldest stag-hunter, and one who had been 

 present at more deaths of the wild red deer in the 

 county than any other living being, I in the course of 

 conversation, asked him whether he could tell, or if he 

 thought it possible for any one to tell the age of a stag 

 by his horns. His answer was prompt and decisive-— 

 ** no." I then told him that 1 had a young male red 



