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horns of the Elk (the largest of the Cervine family which 
still exists on the surface of the globe), and also a fine 
horn of the stag or red deer ; and in the month of February, 
1868; a horn and the occipital portion of the skull of a 
female specimen of the Elk were found during the process of 
draining, in a peat bog, about two feet below the surface, 
on the property of Sir Greorge Cholmley at Carnaby, near 
Bridlington ; and it is very probable the remaining parts of 
the skeleton of one of these animals may still be entombed in 
the same locality. Although the bones of this noble animal are 
said to have been found in different parts of the kingdom, the 
first authentic instance is in the Transactions of the Tyneside 
Natural History Club for 1861 (vol. v., pt. xi., p. Ill), which 
contains a paper on the discovery of a fine shed horn of the 
Moose deer or true Elk at Chirdon Burn, North Tyne, near 
the bottom of a peat formation, resting partially on the 
coarse gritty marl formed by the weathering of the subjacent 
strata. Mons. Lartet detected a lower jaw of the Elk 
amongst other mammalian remains found in the cave 
of Llandebie, in South Wales, in 1861. There is a 
statement that in 1710 the horns of a Moose deer were 
dug up out of an old pond at Mainfort, near Sedge- 
field; and also that in 1827 a very fine specimen of an 
elk’s horn was dug up in the vicinity of West Water, 
near Chatteris, in Cambridgeshire. From the date, however, 
given (1822), it will be evident the Yorkshire specimen is 
the first reliable example on record of the moose occurring in 
Britain, as Professor Owen does not include it in his History 
of British Fossil Mammals, published in 1846, or in his List , 
of Fossil Mammals in the Reports of the British Association ; 
which he most undoubtedly would have done had these 
instances been authenticated. I therefore suspect that in 
both the cases alluded to the horns have been of the large 
red deer or of the Megaceros, and not those of the true Elk, 
