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THE GEOLOGIST. 



for future thought and comparison. Shortly since in walking through 

 the gallery of the British Museum, I visited the cases containing 

 deers' remains, and there, at once I saw, not the counterparts, but 

 what seemed to me the fac-similes of my bits of horns. 



The specimens referred to are those purchased about 1853, of the 

 talented, but unfortunate Bravard, who was killed at the earthquake 

 at Buenos Ayres a few months since. Bravard, as is well known, left 

 France shortly after the memorable coup d'etat, having been much 

 mixed up with political matters; and the collection of Auvergne fossils 

 which he, the Abbe Cloizet, and M. Pomel, had formed, were brought to 

 England, and sold to the trustees of our National collection. The horns 

 and bones of the deer I have referred to, have neither been figured nor 

 described anywhere that I know of, and I believe the only right they 

 have to their name is the inscription on the tablet on which they are 

 placed, " Cervus tetracroceros. Brav." They are all from Pliocene 

 deposits at Perolles, Puy de Dome. The principal specimens are four 

 horns of more or less adult animals, each characterized by, when fully 

 developed, at most four antlers, projecting in front and coming off 

 from the horn remarkably direct, so as to form almost a right angle ; 

 a young horn, probably the second year's ; some upper and lower 

 molar teeth ; portion of maxillary bone with a series of milk teeth ; 

 portion of left maxillary bone with the two last milk molars ; penul- 

 timate upper left molar ; portion of right ramus of lower jaw, with 

 all the molars (three molars, three premolars) in situ ; lower portion 

 of femur ; portions of tibiae ; left metatarsal ; calcaneum ; four 

 astragali ; piece of scapula ; piece of humerus ; and a portion of a 

 sacral vertebra. 



Horn of Cervus tetracroceros, Brav. ; in British Museum. 



In the same case is a portion of deer's horn from the mammaliferous 

 crag of Norfolk, which is placed with these remains, but we doubt its 

 identity. The horns of the Cervus tetracroceros are also characterized 



