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in the red-deer is known as the sur-royal antler, to be anything 

 but a rein-deer's. 



Writing for Scottish readers, I need not refer to Dr. J. A. Smith's 

 paper ' On Remains of the Reindeer in Scotland,' read before the 

 Society of the Antiquaries of Scotland, June 14, 1869, vol. viii. pt. i. 

 pp. 186-223, nor to his references in that exhaustive memoir to 

 preceding writers. But I may mention an additional reference 

 which Dr. J. A. Smith — not being gifted with as much second- 

 sight as he is with insight— could not have then referred to, as 

 it is contained in a book of more recent date than is his paper. 

 This reference will be found in Dr. Joseph Anderson's edition of the 

 ■ Orkneyinga Saga,' chap. vi. p. 182. 



Regarding a subsequent consignment of bones and horns sent to 

 Professor Rolleston, he writes as follows : — 



The only remark which I feel called upon to make relates to the 

 bones and the teeth of the pig ; the marrow cavity in the lower 

 jaw of one of the pigs, a young specimen, containing a large 

 quantity of crystals, and the teeth of the older pigs showing a 

 great deal of wear for the teeth of what were, I think, domesticated 

 swine. The crystals were analysed by W. W. Fisher, Esq., of the 

 Chemical Department in the Oxford Museum, and found to be 

 vivianite, as supposed. It is not uncommon to have bones from 

 prehistoric ' finds ' which have been much acted on either by fire or 

 water, thus coloured by double decomposition of the bone phosphate 

 with some iron salt furnished either from the bone and flesh or 

 otherwise. 



The horns (all the washed ones in the collection) received a few 

 days ago are all of red-deer (Cervus elap/ms) except one, which is of 

 Cervus capreolus. With this consignment came one bone, or rather 

 the ulna and radius of a Bos longifrons more or less fused into one 

 bone. The horn of the roe is rather a large one. 



