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from the discovery of fossil remains in various European 

 countries where it has been extinct for ages. 



Mr. Boyd Dawkins says: In the turbaries of North 

 Germany, and especially in Poraerania, its remains are 

 very abundant, and are there associated with those of 

 reindeer and other animals. 



Even our own land appears to have been once inha- 

 bited by this noble animal, for its bones have been 

 found in a cave on the coast of Pembrokeshire, 

 associated with those of Ursus spelceus and the mammoth, 

 proving that it lived in Britain, as it did in France, 

 during the Pleistocene times. According to Dr. Percival 

 Wright, an antler attributed to the true Elk was found in 

 Ireland, and exhibited at a meeting of the Dublin Royal 

 Society last spring. And the case adduced by Mr. Howse 

 proves that this animal lived in England also after the 

 disappearance of the mammoth, cave-lion, and other 

 Pleistocene mammalia, in the period that, for want of a 

 better name, we call prehistoric. In his " Notes on the 

 Fossil Remains of Extinct Mammalia found in North- 

 umberland and Durham," * he says, " The former 

 existence of the true Elk or Moose Deer of the Canadians 

 in England rests upon the authority of a very fine antler 

 which was found in Chirdon Burn. The perfect appear- 



* Trans. Tyneside Nat. Field Club. 



