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No. 10. A fragment of the upper portion of the head and left horn, 
apparently very much affected by either weather or water, the burr being 
worn off on both sides. Presented, along with No. 5, by Mr. Algernon 
Preston. 
No. 11. A fragment of a small head and both horn-beams, but want- 
ing the palms and brow antlers. This specimen presents some peculiarities 
differing slightly from all the others. The crowns on which the horns 
are set are very much longer and narrower—even compared with their 
size—than in any other specimen in the Academy. The circumference 
of the beam a little above the brow antler is but 5} inches. The antlers 
appear to rise higher, and not to spread so wide laterally as in all the 
others. It was presented by the Shannon Commissioners, and was 
“¢ found in excavations in the lock pit at the new works, Rooskey, i bog, 
ten feet beneath the surface of ground, 1Ith March, 1847.” The infra- 
orbital holes are 34 inches from the horn-crowns, and inmost of the other 
heads scarcely more than 24 inches. The older the animal, the smaller and 
more oblique do these holes appear to become (see Nos.1 and 5). This 
remarkable specimen, as shown in the subjoined woodcut, is either a 
different variety, a very young animal, or a degenerate race; and of 
Fig. 5. 
these three suggestions the first seems the most probable; and the fact of 
Jinding tt in a bog, above either the blue clay or marl, shows that it ex- 
isted in times more recent than the foregoing and larger animals. 
No. 12. A small fragment of the frontal bone, with a portion of the 
left horn and brow antler, of a large and apparently old animal, found 
with several other bones of C. megaceros, ‘‘ in a solid bank, 17 feet under 
the surface of sandy clay and peat,” in the townland of Bumlin, Strokes- 
town drainage district, county of Roscommon. Presented by the Board 
of Works. 
No. 18. The beam of a right horn, with a small portion of the 
‘skull attached; very heavy and dark-coloured, as if by immersion in 
bog. No number or label attached. 
