242 EXTINCT MONSTERS. 
a specimen in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons 
(Lincoln’s Inn Fields). The height of this specimen to the 
summit of the antlers is 10 ft. 4 in. The span of the antlers, 
from tip to tip, is 8 ft. (in the living Moose it is only 4 ft). The 
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Fic. 57.—Skeleton of Great Trish Deer, Cervus giganteus, from shell-marl 
beneath the peat, Ireland. Antlers over g feet across. 
weight of the skull and antlers together is 76 lbs., but those of 
_ another specimen belonging to the Royal Dublin Society weigh 
87 lbs. This great extinct deer surpassed the largest Wapite 
(Cervus Canadensis) in size, and its antlers were very much larger, 
