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PEOCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETT. 



[June 5, 



There is, however, a general resemblance between the two animals ; 

 and the fully grown Cervus verticornis must have rivalled the Irish 

 Elk in size, although its antlers were not so wide in their sweep, or 

 60 elegant in their outlines. 



The following are the measurements (in inches) of the principal 

 antlers which I have examined : — 



Maximum length 



Circumference of beam 



Basal circumference 



Long diameter of base 



Short diameter of base 



Circumference of brow-tyne . . . 

 From brow-tyne to second tyne 

 From second tyne to third tyne 



Geolog. 





Norwich 





Survey 



Norwich 



Museum. 



British 



(King 



Museum. 



(Gunn 



Museum. 



collect.). 





collect.). 





12-0 





13-5 



17-6 



4-8 







19-0 



7-5 



7-2 



10-4 



11-5 



3-0 









20 









2-5 





7-5 



8-0 



2-0 





3-3 



6-5 



1-8 



2-8 







2. Other Species pkom the Fokest-bed. 



The Cervidce of the Forest-bed present a most remarkable mixture 

 of forms. Dr. Falconer has determined one species, Cervus Poll- 

 gnacus (Palseontographical Memoirs, ii. p. 479), which occurs also in 

 the Pliocene lacustrine deposit of Mont Perrier, near Issoire ; and 

 he has described a new species, with peculiar flattened branching 

 antlers, as C. Sedgwickii (oj). cit. p. 476). The Stag, Roe, and Oervus 

 megaceros are also present. To these I am now able to add the 

 species which M. Laugel obtained from the Pliocenes of St.-Prest, 

 near Chartres, and described in the ' Bull, de la Societe Geol. ' 2d ser, 

 xix. p. 711, 1862, under the name of Cervus (megaceros) carnutorum. 



It is based on the frontlet with portions of the beams of the antlers. 

 The latter are round and deeply grooved, and the burr is strongly 

 defined and annular. The brow-antler is removed nearly 2 inches 

 from the burr, and rises at an acute angle to the beam. According 

 to Prof. Gervais, the skull difi'ers from that of the Irish Elk in the 

 interval between the bases of the antlers being smaller. The fol- 

 lowing measurements are taken from his work ' Animaux Vertebres 

 vivants et fossiles,' 1867-9, p. 85 : — 





St.-Prest. 



Oyster-beds, 

 Norfolk. 





1-75 

 6-92 

 3-6 

 10-2 

 1-85 



1-8 

 6'0 

 3-7 

 7-3 



1-9 



Frontal measurement from below pedicle 





Circumference of beam at burr 









A waterworn frontlet of Cervus in the Museum of the Geological 

 Society, and obtained from the " Oyster-beds " of the Norfolk coast 



