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leg bones of the Reindeer.* These are probably the 

 bones referred to in the old Statistical Account of 

 Scotland (vol. xvii. p. 478), as having been found in 

 Mr. Farquharson's marl-pit at Marlee, and surmised 

 to be those of the Elk. 



Dr. Smith has figured the smooth beam of a 

 right horn of a young or female Reindeer (torn, tit., 

 p. 23), taken from a cutting of the Forth and Clyde 

 Junction Railway, in the basin of the Endrick, near 

 Croftamie, Dumbartonshire. This specimen, which 

 was identified by Professor Owen, was not in the 

 boulder clay, but in a bed of blue clay, about seven 

 feet thick, below it, between the boulder clay and the 

 underlying rock of the district. 



Again, on the farm of Greenhill, near Kilmaurs, 

 Ayrshire, some antlers of a large Reindeer were found 

 thirty-six feet below the surface, together with a 

 tusk of the Mammoth, t 



The late Sir William Jardine had, a few years 

 since, an opportunity of examining some very interest- 

 ing animal remains, which were exhumed at Shaws, 

 about four miles from his residence in Dumfriesshire. 

 Besides several bones of the Red deer, Roedeer, Bos 

 primigenius (the last named rare) , and a very perfect 

 skull of the Brown Bear, already referred to, was a 

 portion of an antler, which, from its outline, flattened 

 character, and smooth surface, could have belonged 

 only to a Reindeer ; it measured about twelve 



* Neill, " Mem. "Wern. Nat. Hist. Soc," vol. iii. p. 214. 

 f See Geikie, ' Memoir on the Phenomena of the Glacial Drift of 

 Scotland,' "Trans. Geol. Soc. Glasgow," voh i. p. 71 (1863). 



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