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was made by Professor Cousin, of Louvain, who found some bone 
implements, together with numbers of human bones. During a 
later visit more human bones, and a somewhat abundant quantity 
of wheat, were discovered in a stratum of angular flints. The 
wheat appeared to have been charred, and though it is decidedly 
smaller in size than our ordinary grain, the author does not hesi- 
tate to affirm that the material he has found is cultivated wheat. 
— The Academy. 
ZOOLOGY. 
Tuer Sprke-nornep Muteprrr.—My friend Mr. J. A. Allen, in 
a late number of the Naruratist, calls in question the accuracy of 
my observation on an animal of the above character, believing that 
I have been deceived and have mistaken a two year old elk for a 
buck, Cariacus macrotis. Although I did not see the animal in the 
skin, my informants at Fort Hays were so well assured of its char- 
acter that I accepted their statements. On a second inquiry of 
Dr. J. H. Janeway, Post Surgeon, he favored me with the follow- 
ing letter : — 
‘*Fort Hays, Kansas, Nov. 7, 1872. 
Prof. E. D. Corr, Philadelphia, Pa. My dear Si ir :—In regard 
to the spike-horns that I sent you, of which you so kindly ac- 
knowledged the receipt, and which seem to have caused some g 
pute as to their species :— I informed you that they were from 
black tailed deer. Since then I have satisfied myself entirely that 
I was correct in the assertion. The buck was killed in ¢ ompany 
with a doe, about three miles southeast of this post and the meat 
was partaken of by my family and the families of other officers at 
the post and by patients in the hospital, and was recognized by 
to be a “black tail deer.” The skin, and especially the tail, were 
in possession of one of my sons for a long time and were known 
to him to plang to a black tail deer. No elk has been shot or 
see i or this side of the se (over twelve miles dis- 
tant, nearest roku} inside of five year 
The association with a doe of the black-tailed species adds 
greatly to the probable correctness of the determination. 
I have moreover examined a second example of spike-horn of 
this species, in possession of Mr. Prentice of Topeka, Kansas. 
The stuffed head which bears the horns belonged to a deer which 
was brought to the market in Leavenworth, Kansas, having been 
killed west of that city, towards the Republican river. The ani- 
mal is evidently adult. The beam is twenty-two and one-fourth 
inches in length, fourteen inches in diameter at the base and sep- — 
