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active during the war, and the game which they killed does 

 not generally appear in the official statistics. 



There is no reason to doubt that the elk in Russia, Finland, 

 and East Prussia have suffered much more in the past few 

 years at the hands of hungry peasants than have those in 

 Scandinavia. Martenson, a Russian, wrote in 1903 that in 

 his country more than 200,000 elk were killed yearly. {Der 

 Elch, pages v., 166.) At that time elk hunting was closely 

 regulated by law. It is to be apprehended that under Bolshevik 

 administration the kill of elk in that country has very greatly 

 increased, just as the number killed in East Prussia increased 

 during the Revolution of 1848. (See page 284.) And of 

 course food shortage and political confusion have created a 

 somewhat similar situation in other regions bordering on the 

 Baltic. 



Edwin Tulley Newton, F. R. S., F. G. S., in a paper read, 

 December 17, 1902, before the Geological Society of London, 



P. 



FOSSIL ELK IN ENGLAND 



(See page 337.) 



Fossil Antlers Found in England 



describes and illustrates fossil antlers of elk discovered in the 

 Thames valley, twenty miles west of London, three or four 



