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the mammoth lived. In one case he understood the head of a mammoth 
had been discovered transfixed by a flint arrow-head. 
Mr. Dibdin asked the foundation for that statement. 
Mr. Whitley remarked that the statement showed how necessary it was 
to be careful and accurate ; it was so far correct as that an arrow-head was 
declared to have been discovered embedded in the head of a reindeer, not 
the head of a mammoth.* 
The Meeting was then adjourned. 
* See u Nilsson on the Stone Age,” p. 171. It has been stated both by 
Mr. Drake and Professor Ansted, that a flint implement was found en- 
tangled in the horns of a stag (a reindeer) at Brixham ; but this has been 
disproved by Mr, Pengelly .— The Geologist, vol. iv. p. 288— N. W. 
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