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The accessory column in the interspaces between the lobules of 

 the crowns of the true molars * on the outer side in the lower jaw, 

 and on the inner of the upper jaw, is rudimentary, being developed 

 basally as a small tubercle. These tubercles are much narrower 

 than those in specimens in the Oxford Museum, from a turbary, and 

 consequently are more pointed, and do not keep the lobules, as it 

 were, so far apart. 



2. Antlers of Cervus BucMandi t characterized by the brow-antler 

 arising at a distance of 2|- inches or more from the base of the beam. 

 These had fallen off by necrosis. Two antlers of Cervus GuettardiX : 

 the one, a mere fragment and broken in exactly the same fashion as 

 one from the cavern of Breugue, figured in the fourth volume of Cu- 

 vier's ' Ossemens Tossiles,' pi. 6. fig. 15; the other also is exactly 

 similar to fig. 17 of the same plate, and is characterized by the brow- 

 antler arising 2| inches from the base of the beam, and by the bez- 

 antler arising from the posterior and opposite side. The beam is 

 round, and in circumference is 2 inches, and in length 14 inches. 

 The branches have a tendency to become palmated. 



Among the equivocal cervine remains is the posterior portion of 

 a skull §, which in the posterior position of the antler-basement, and 

 in general form, strongly resembles that of Cervus Tarandus, figured 

 in Owen's * Fossil Mammals ' and in the ' Ossemens Fossiles,' and 

 one in the British Museum. The antler-basements are but one inch 

 removed from the occipital crest, and are about one inch and a half in 

 diameter. On comparing this latter measurement with the diameter 

 of the necrosed bases of antlers of Cervus BucMandi, I find that it 

 exactly coincides with one of them, and with the short diameter 



inquiry. To effect this I use a vertical fine, which is supposed to represent the 

 median line of the animal, putting teeth and bones of the right side to its right, 

 and of the left side to its left, as in the text. This method is very useful in cata- 

 loguing. 



* See Owen's British Foss. Mam. pp. 449, 450. 



t Dimensions of two fragments of antlers of Cervus BucMandi : — 



in. lin. in. lin. 



Distance of brow-antler from the base of beam 2 6 2 6 



Circumference near the base 6 6 3 



Diameter at the base 1 6-9 1 6 



Both are rounded basally and rather flattened where the brow-antler is given. 



in. lin. 



I Length of beam 14 



Brow-antler, distance from base 2 6 



Bez-antler 8 9 



Circumference of rounded beam 2 



§ Dimensions of skull : — 



in. lin. 



Diameter of antler -basement or frontals 1 6 



Distance between antler-basements 1 9 



Distance of antler-basement from occipital crest 1 



From the summit of median crest on occipital to foramen magnum 2 3 

 From the summit of mastoid to the superior and median portion of 



foramen magnum, where the crest on occipitals impinges upon it 2 9 

 Diameter of occipital, measured between the points where the squa- 

 mous portion of the temporal impinges upon tlie occipital crest. . . 3 G 



