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humerus referred to belongs to that species I have confirmed 

 by comparison with specimens in the Anatomical Museum 

 of the University : also from these Museum specimens I am 

 of opinion that the humerus under consideration is from an 

 animal about 25 feet long. 



In addition to the above remains, I received a dorsal and 

 a lumbar vertebra and two ribs. These I am inclined to 

 refer to the genus BaloinopteTa, but the paucity of the 

 specimens prevents me from determining the species with 

 certainty, although, from the size of the lumbar vertebra, it 

 might well have come from an animal between 40 and 50 

 feet long, evidently not adult, as the bodies are without their 

 epiphysial plates. — J, S. 



Note No. 2. — On his return from Franz Josef Land, Mr W. 

 S. Bruce, Naturalist to the Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition, 

 presented to the Anatomical Museum of the University of 

 Edinburgh some interesting animal remains which he had 

 found in that country. These consisted of four portions of 

 antlers of the reindeer, along with a tibia of that animal, 

 while the "find" also included the tibia of a seal. The 

 largest deer horn belongs to the left side, is adult, and the 

 distance between the point of attachment to the skull and 

 the root of the brow tine is 1 inch ; from the same point to 

 the first bifurcation, 8 J inches; while the greatest breadth of 

 that portion is 2J inches. The blades are broken off, and 

 only a small part of the brow tine remains, so that the 

 characters peculiar to the American and the Lapland species 

 cannot be recognised. Other two of the specimens of 

 horns are 8 inches in length, and belong to an adult animal, 

 whilst the fourth may be called the beam of the antler of a 

 young animal. It is 13 inches long, and for nearly a third 

 of its length is cylindrical, with a diameter of half an inch. 

 The proximal end of the tibia is absent, but the shaft and 

 distal end possess all the characters of a reindeer bone. 

 The tibia of the seal is 9J inches in length, but the absence 

 of other specimens with which to compare it renders it a 

 difficult matter to refer the bone to any particular species. 



In connection with the reindeer bones, Mr Bruce says 

 that this animal does not exist in Franz Josef Land. — J. S. 



