ANTLERS 



n 



and one-seventh carbonate of lime with an 

 appreciable trace of magnesia. The animal 

 matter gives the bone elasticity and tenacity, 

 the earthy matter hardness and rigidity. 



'ROYAL FEOM INVBRNBSS-SHIRE. 



Deer horn consists of about thirty-nine parts of 

 animal matter and sixty-one parts of earthy matter 

 of the same kind and proportions as is found in 

 ordinary bone. This is the mean of many results 

 of analysis of antlers of different species of deer by 

 different processes, amongst which are very slight 



