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GEOLOGY OF TITE 1*1. F, OF WIGHT. 



crest. Dr. Falconer, who, with his wonted cour- 

 tesy, obliged me by comparing the Isle of Wight 

 specimen with the skulls of recent deer in the 

 British Museum, agrees with me in the opinion 

 that there is no appreciable difference between 

 the fossil cranium and that of the Rein-deer. 

 Lign. 4,* represents the specimen viewed from 



LIGN 4. — FOSSIL SKULI. OF A REIN-DKER, FROM A FISSURE IN A QUARRY 

 AT KINSTF.AD 



a. a. The osseous bases to which the antlers were attached. 

 (One-third linear of the natural tize.) 



the occipital aspect ; the figure is one-third the 

 size of the original. The skull appears to have 

 belonged to an adult, that had but recently shed 

 its antlers. 



* Engraved by Mr. Haptr. 6S, Gower Street. 



