THE 



GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 



NEW SERIES. DECADE IV. VOL. V. 



No. II.— FEBRUARY, 1898. 



OS/XC3-XI>r.A.Xj .A.K,TIGXjES. 



I. — Note on the Antlers of a Red-Deer (Cervus elaphus, Linn.) 

 FROM Alport, Youlgreave, near JBakewell, Derbyshire 

 — now in the British Museum (Natural History), CromwelL 

 Eoad, London. 



By Hekrt Woodward, LL.D., F.R.S., V.P.G.S., etc. 

 (PLATE II.) 



IN 1891, Frank S. Goodwin, Esq., of Bakewell, Derbyshire, 

 presented to the British Museum (Natural History) a pair of 

 antlers of red-deer, with fragments of the calvarium attached, which 

 had been obtained, with other cervine remains, from a tufaceous 

 deposit of comparatively modern date near Bakewell, Derbyshire. 



Owing to the loss of all animal matter the antlers were in a very 

 friable condition and fell in pieces on being handled, although at 

 some distant time they had been repaired partially with long sti'ips 

 of calico. 



Two causes rendered them of interest: firstly, they were of 

 unusually large size, resembling the great American Wapiti (Cervus 

 Canadensis) in stoutness and length of beam ; secondly, they proved 

 to have been described in a letter from the Eev. Robert Barber, B.D., 

 to John jebb, Esq., M.D., F.R.S., which was published in the Phil. 

 Trans. Royal Society for 1785 (vol. Ixxv, p. 353). 



Notwithstanding their almost hopeless state of dilapidation, they 

 attracted the attention of Sir Edmund Giles Loder, Bart., and 

 Mr. J. G. Millais (the latter of whom examined and made drawings 

 of them about a year ago). An attempt was made to brino- 

 the broken antlers together again ; and after much time and labour 

 expended by Mr. C. Barlow, the Formatore, they have at leno-th 

 been successfully rehabilitated, and are now exhibited on the top of 

 pier-case No. l(i, in the Geological Gallery devoted to fossil Mam- 

 malia, where they form, from their size and whiteness, one of the 

 most striking objects in the series of cervine remains. 



The following is the account printed in the Phil. Trans. R.S for 

 1785 (vol. Ixxv, p. 353), read April 14th, 1785 :— 



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