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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 couio d'etat, having been much 
mixed up with political matters j and the collection of Auvergne fossils 
which he, the Abb6 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 ietracroceros. 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 j piece of humerus ; and a portion of a 
sacral vertebra. 
Horn of Cervus ietracroceros, 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 ietracroceros are also characterized 
