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size it is like Mr. King's Axis from the Crag and Forest-bed, but it differs 

 in the brow-antler being given off lower, and in not having the same 

 pronounced double curve. The species is evidently distinct (Cervtis 

 Clactonianus). 



10. September 12, 1863. — ' Jardin des Plantes, Paris. Examined, 

 with Lartet, Cuvier's horn of Cervus Somonensis (Oss. Foss. torn. iv. 

 PI. VI. fig. 19). A small part of the frontal is present. There is 

 absolutely no pedicle whatever, and the horn base is very close to the 

 orbit. The summit is united with plaster and is evidently a misfit, 

 probably not even of the same species, or certainly turned the wrong 

 way. Very puzzling to determine the species.' 



11. September 15 to 21, 1863. — Dr. F. visited the Museums of Le 

 Puy and Chartres, in conjunction with M. Lartet, and took numerous 

 notes and drawings of the fossil remains of Deer found in them, and 

 particularly of Cervus Sulilhacus and C. Polignacus, but he failed to 

 disrover any specimens resembling the large antler in Mr. Gunn's 

 collection. 



12. September, 1863. — Provisional list of Norwich-Crag and Forest- 

 bed Cervidce.- 



a. Mr. Gunn's large Cervus Sedgwiclcii. (See anlea, p. 472.) 



b. Mr. Gunn's large Strongyloceros (sic). The specimen is of left 

 side, and consists of the basal portion of a huge horn that had been 

 shed. The brow-antler is given off about 2 inches above the bur, and 

 is curved abruptly downwards and outwards like a huge hook ; it is 

 perfectly terete, and the portion remaining shows no appearance of sub- 

 division. It is very boldly channelled on the convex outer side; 

 smooth inwards. The beam above the bur is not quite terete, but 

 oval, with a ridge behind, opposite the brow-antler. The beam then 

 contracts, and becomes nearly cylindrical, and then expands, giving off 

 from the anterior outer side a large antler, at about 6-7 inches above 

 the bur and 41 inches (lower edge) above upper side of brow-antler. 

 The beam is then somewhat flattened in a direction corresponding with 

 that of the brow-antler. Only the section of the base of the median 

 antler seen. A ridge descends from lower edge of median antler, outer 

 side, to the ridge or tuberosity opposite the brow-antler. 



Length of specimen, 13-5 in. Girth above trar, 10-5 in. Girth of brow-antler 

 at base, 7'5 in. Ditto at tip, 6- in. Length of brow-antler fragment, about 5- in. 

 Vertical length of section of median, 2'5 in. Transverse diameter of ditto, 2'0 in. 

 Girth above brow-antler, 8 - 25 in. Ditto above median, 9-5 in. 



The brow-antler is given off much higher than I have ever seen it in 

 the Irish Elk ; the beam less cylindrical than in the latter, and more 

 erect, without the elegant long reclinate reach in the latter. The low 

 offset of the median antler is also very different. It appears to indicate 

 a huge Deer as large as Irish Elk, but quite distinct. 



There is nothing like it in the British Museum. 



c. Mr. Gunn's large Cervus Polignacus — ' a shed-antler throwing off 

 a brow-antler, which nearly continues the beam downwards ; the beam 

 deeply channelled, round below and flattened a little above; evidently 

 the same species as the Val d'Arno figures.' 



d. Cervus eurycerus, from Miss Anna Gurney, in Oxford Museum 

 (1858). 



e. The Eev. S. W. King's specimen ofRusa. This is a double curved 



