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EDITORIAL GLEANINGS. 
Dr. Henry Woopwarp, in the ‘Geological Magazine’ (Decade iv. 
vol. v. p. 49) has illustrated and described a pair of gigantic antlers of the 
Great Red Deer (Cervus elaphus, Linn.) :— 
“Tn 1891, Frank 8. Goodwin, Esq., of Bakewell, Derbyshire, presented 
to the British Museum (Natural History) a pair of antlers of Red Deer, witli 
fragments of the calvarium attached, which had been obtained, with other 
cervine remains, from a tufaceous deposit of comparatively modern date 
near Bakewell, Derbyshire. Owing to the loss of all animal matter the 
antlers were in a very friable condition, and fell in pieces on being handled, 
although at some distant time they had been repaired partially with long 
strips of calico. 
‘Two causes rendered them of interest: firstly, they were of unusually 
large size, resembling the great American Wapiti (Cervus canadensis) in 
stoutness and length of beam; secondly, they proved to have been described 
in a letter from the Rev. Robert Barber, B.D., to John Jebb, Esq., M.D., 
F.R.S., which was published in the Phil. Trans. Royal Society for 1785 
(vol. Ixxv. p. 353). 
* Notwithstanding their almost hopeless state of dilapidation they 
attracted the attention of Sir Edmund Giles Loder, Bart., and Mr. J. G. 
Millais (the latter of whom examined and made drawings of them about a 
year ago). An attempt was made to bring the broken antlers together 
again, and after much time and labour expended by Mr. C. Barlow, the 
Formatore, they have at length been successfully rehabilitated, and are now 
exhibited on the top of pier-case No. 16 in the Geological Gallery devoted 
to fossil Mammalia, where they form, from their size and whiteness, one of 
the most striking objects in the series of cervine remains. 
*‘ The following measurements have been taken since the antlers have 
been repaired and mounted in the Gallery :—* 
_ MEasurREMENT oF ANTLERS oF Cervus elaphus FROM ALPORT, YOULGREAVE. 
ft. in. ft. in. 
Width at the ‘nests’ ...... 3 .,9:| (Girth ot pedicle ......4,.. 0 72 
Length of right antler ... 4 0 » abovethe burr ... O 93 
33, Lett ie ie OTS FS Sean e Sh ULC ae .5s 0 9 
pes; DYOW-tiN6® ...... 0 11 1) 2 oi ee 0 63 
PTI: * 554." papese 0 < me OLOY sgn olde 0 62” 
SE sh 4 ea | 
* See also ‘ British Deer and their Horns,’ by J. G. Millais, p. 96, fig. 2, 
| and p. 105. 
