344 Report of Meetings for 1886. By J. Hardy. 



Pope, the Poet. 



Francis Scott, 1801. 



Somerset, wife to Lord Protector. 



Lord Cockermouth, afterwards Earl of Egremont. 



Mrs Baillie. 



Hugh Scott, Harden, 1799. 



Francis Scott, Earl of Dalkeith. 



Eliz. Ann Scott, and George William Scott, uncle and aunt of 



present Lord Polwarth. 

 George Wyndham, Earl of Egremont, aged 82, December, 1855. 



By Lucas. 

 The Hon. Erancis Scott and his daughter (now Mrs Baxendale) . 

 Presented by members of the Surrey Hunt, on his retiring 

 from the Mastership. 



The remainder have no titles attached, and there appears to 

 be no catalogue. 



In the library there is a black letter cop} 7 of Chaucer, without 

 date.* 



There is a magnificent head of Red Deer antlers, of great 

 size and thickness, from the Marl of Whitrig Bog, placed in the 

 lower entrance hall. 



Mr James Dodds kindly took for me the dimensions of this 

 head of antlers. He writes, March 3, 1877 : "I measured the 

 antlers from tip to tip, 4 feet 2 inches ; from tip to where the 

 antler enters the skull, 3 feet 6 inches; tines 16. Not far from 

 where the antler enters the cranium, there are two protusions on 

 each antler, which seem to have been broken off ; these are 

 included in the 16." 



Dr J. A. Smith records this head and antlers in the Proc. of 

 the Soc. of Ant. Scot., vol. xv., p. 47. "I had the pleasure of 

 examining a skull of the Eed Deer with large and well developed 

 horns, which displayed some fifteen or sixteen points ; which 

 was found along with apparently the entire skeleton, in Whitrig 

 Bog." Skulls of the Urus (Bos primigenius) had also been found 

 here, (Proc. of Soc. Ant. June 10, 1872, vol. ix., p. 658 ;) and 

 likewise the skull with imperfect horns of an Elk ( Cervus alces L). 

 The remains of the Elk, found in 1870, are preserved in the 

 museum of the Society. Dr Smith describes these very elabor- 



* Hugh Scott, Esq. of Harden, purchased the library of his grandfather, 

 the Earl of Marr-hmont (Pope's friend). 



