4 PLEISTOCENE MAMMALIA. 



gives a list of some of the other chief localities where bones have been found in large 

 numbers. 



W. Williams (1878) (65) and (1881) (77) contributed important papers dealing, 

 among other matters, with the cause of death of the Megaceros when found in large 

 numbers, with the possible cause of its extinction, and of the frequent occurrence of 

 the skull without the rest of the skeleton. 



Although A. Savin (1878) (64) had recorded Megaceros from the Forest Bed of 

 Cromer, E. T. Newton (1880) (70) and (1882) (78) hesitated to admit it to the list of 

 Forest Bed animals. Osborn (1910) (122), in his account of the Forest Bed fauna, 

 groups C. daivhinsi of Newton and C. verticornis of Dawkins as members of the 

 Giant Fallow Deer phylum. 



T. Eupert Jones in 1881 (75) reported the finding forty years previously of 

 Megaceros in the peat of Aldermaston, Berks. This record of its occurrence in 

 peat is interesting, but in view of the long lapse of time between the find and its 

 publication the record should be received with caution. 



The section of Lydekker's ' Catalogue of the Fossil Mammals of the British 

 Museum,' which contains the Irish Giant Deer, was published in 1885, and his 

 important account of the various continental races included in ' Deer of all Lands ' 

 in 1898. 



Measurements by W. H. Potter (84) of the chief skeletons in Irish and English 

 Museums were printed in the ' Field ' in 1888, and in 1890 the publication of Wood- 

 ward and Sherborn's ' Catalogue of British Fossil Vertebrata ' rendered available a 

 most useful series of references to the literature. 



Although papers were published by Rathke (1842) (25) and von Eichwald (1845) 

 (27), comparatively little attention was paid to the Giant Deer on the continent from 

 the time of Cuvier and Goldfuss till early in the second half of the nineteenth century, 

 when Cornalia (1851-71) (38) and Gastaldi (1861) (44) described examples from various 

 parts of Northern Italy. Cornalia showed that the Giant Deer was a contemporary 

 of Man in the valley of the Po, which is probably second only to Ireland as 

 regards the abundance of its remains. Rutimeyer (1883) (80), in a comprehensive 

 paper dealing with the mutual relations of deer, has a section on Megaceros. 



During the present century there have been numerous continental records such as 

 those of Hagmann (1908) (119) from Alsace, Martelli (1908) (117) from Italy, Dietrich 

 (1909) (121) from Swabia, Schweder (1913) (128) and Greve (1913) (129) from Russia, 

 and Chomenko (1915) (133) from the Caucasus. Other references will be found in 

 the bibliography. 



The most interesting point connected with these continental records has. however, 

 been the recognition by Pohlig and Nehring of certain distinct races. Pohlig (89), in 

 his comprehensive paper (1892) on the Deer of the Thuringian " diluvial " travertine, 

 recognizes two chief continental varieties, Cervus (Euryceros) ger-manics and Cervus 

 (Euryceros) italics, which arc considered in the sequel (pp. 15—17). 



