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of Dr. Woodward was correct, for patriotism has no place in 
Science ! Certainly the narrative of the death of the fallow deer in 
Oulton Park helps to explain a great enigma regarding the 
occurrence of remains of numerous animals under the same peat-hog ; 
but we also know that when deer, like sheep, are frightened they 
try to herd together, and might thus perish together — for example, 
on the approach of wolves. 
In reply to the question of Colonel Hendley, the author stated 
that all the animal forms of the Eastern Atlantic Islands were of 
European genera and species. He was glad to learn from the 
Chairman and Colonel Hendley that the lion still existed in Western 
India. 
In reply to the suggestion of Dr. Irving — that the age of the great 
“ epeirogenic ” uplift might be extended back into Miocene times— 
he agreed that it may have originated just at the close of that 
epoch ; but Dr. Irving was aware that the Miocene period was 
characterised by extensive lakes in Central Europe, and the deposits 
of that age had been elevated to high levels in the Alps during the 
succeeding Pliocene period — which had left no representations of its 
own. The late Professor Issel’s observations seemed to have settled 
the question in favour of the Pliocene. 
As regards Mr. Rouse’s arguments in favour of human agency 
in the peopling of the Azores, they are worthy of all consideration ; 
but they refer to a period much more recent than that of the 
possible land connection by means of the uprise of the sea-bed 
between the islands and the main land. 
While these pages are passing through the press I would like to 
call attention to the remarkable results attained by a party of 
American explorers under the direction of Professor Osborn, of 
U.S.A., in the basin'of the Fayoum in Egypt, who have apparently dis- 
covered the ancestral forms of both the elephant and rhinoceros in the 
old lacustrine beds of that lake basin. Excellent drawings of these 
forms are given in the Illustrated London News of Saturday, 7th 
March last. But a more detailed examination had been made by 
Dr. C. W. Andrews and Mr. J. L. Beadnell, of which an account is 
given in the Geological Magazine , August, 1903. 
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