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an expanse at its tip of about 2\ feet. The lower tyne is 

 broken off at the base, but the fracture indicates that it must 

 have been nearly equal in size to the other, with a downward 

 inclination. All three tynes are in the same vertical plane, 

 forming a three -pronged fork. This plane does not correspond 

 with that of the divisions of the supra-basilar, which, as 

 already stated, inclines more outwards. 1 



The third or royal antler is given off about 10 inches 

 above the median, like the others, in a flattened branch, 

 which slopes upwards, and after a stretch of about 5 inches 

 bifurcates. The lower snag, the tip of which is wanting, is of 

 great length; it is directed forwards, with a slight inclination 

 upwards, so as to be nearly parallel with the uppermost snag 

 of the median. The second snag of the royal is broken off a 

 little above the fork ; but the remaining portion of its base 

 indicates that it was simple, and that its point was directed 

 nearly straight upwards, or in a line with the axis of the 

 beam. The expanse of the broken end of the lower snag of 

 the royal, measured from the posterior edge of the beam, 

 attains not less than 2 feet 5 inches, and when the terminal 

 portion was complete it can have been but little short of 

 3 feet, while the entire length of the beam from the bur to 

 the terminal fork does not exceed 1 foot 10 inches. The 

 vertical plane of the royal and its branches, as already stated, 

 corresponds with that of the median. 2 



The terminal part of the beam is broken off immediately 

 above the edge of the royal antler ; but a portion of the fork 

 between them remains. The width of the terminal portion 

 of the former does not exceed that of the larsrer snasr of 

 the latter. It is therefore inferred that the beam was 

 continued up in a single very elongated slender snag; 

 or there may have been a fork of two snags. Detached 

 specimens of very elongated, straight, slender snags, com- 

 pressed at their base, and from the same Forest-bed, exist in 

 the collections of the Be v. John Gunn and of Mr. Fitch of 

 Norwich, one in each. These would correspond with the 

 supposed termination of the beam, in the specimen here 

 described. 



[There is no conclusive indication as to how the beam 

 terminated, but Mr. G-unn has got in his collection a magni- 

 ficent fragment of a flattened antler, the channelled surface 

 and general appearance of which correspond very closely 



1 Extract from Note-book. — ' The me- [ the section being 4| by 1^ in., and the 



dian is very much flattened, the section 

 of the oval being 3|- by 1 J in.' — [Ed.] 



2 Extract from Note-book. — ' The 

 royal is still flatter than the median, 



successive tynes are flattened in a similar 

 manner, as we go upwards, the lower 

 tyne of the royal at the middle being 

 3 inches by 1.'— [Ed.] 



