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PROFESSOR OWEN ON SOME REMAINS OF THE 
including the natural anterior encl of the skull (Plate 38, fig. 1) is 1 foot; but the 
occiput, here, is wanting. 
The length of each of the horn-cores ( b , V) is 5 inches : the circumference of the base 
of the core is 8§ inches : this is of a full oval shape, 3 inches across antero-posteriorly, 
2 inches vertically. These cores are conical, nearly straight; the upper contour is 
slightly concave lengthwise near the base and also at the apex, but runs straight 
between them ; the lower contour is very slightly but uniformly convex. It may 
be inferred that the horny sheath (&') of the core showed a more definite, though 
feeble upward curve. Both cores extend almost horizontally outward, transversely 
to the long axis of the skull. Their surface is impressed by small vascular holes and 
channels. 
A second shorter core (Plates 37 and 38, fig. 1, e), projecting from the fore part of 
the base of the preceding, might be reckoned a branch thereof, as if foreshowing the 
type of the brow-ant-lered weapon of the deer. 
The breadth of the cranium between the hind part of the bases of the (“ supra- 
temporal”) horns (b, b') is 1 3| inches. This dimension rather rapidly contracts towards 
the orbits (o, o), reducing the breadth between the fore part of the post-orbital tuber¬ 
osities ( 12 ) to 8lr inches. Thence the skull narrows to the single median nostril 
(Plate 37, fig. 1, ol), between the outer walls of which it is reduced to 4 inches in 
breadth, the vertical diameter being about the same. The breadth of the preserved 
maxillo-premaxillary arch (ih. ib., 21 , 22 ) is 6^- inches. 
The base of the small horn-core ( e ) is subcircular, about 2 inches in diameter ; its 
length is 1| inch ; it ends more obtusely than the core (b), of which it seems to be a 
branch, and projects obliquely downward and outward. 
Somewhat in advance of this rises a third larger core, or tuberosity (Plates 37 and 
38, fig. 1, c), projecting outward from the upper and lateral border of the cranium, 
overhanging the broad vertical zygomatic plate (26,27). The base of the core (c) 
measures about 3 inches from behind forward, and rather less transversely; it rises 
about an inch above the cranial level. 
A lower tuberosity (ib. ib .,/) with a broader base rises from the upper surface of 
the cranium, behind the last described and nearer the mid-line : its summit, rugged as 
in the others, is more transversely extended or ridge-like ; the horn which it probably 
supported would be characterised by its transversely broad base. 
Each of the cores (c, e, f), like that marked b, is one of a pair, of which the first (6) 
and third (f ) are preserved on the left as well as on the right side of the cranium ; 
the core (c) has been broken away with its supporting part of the cranial plate on the 
left side. 
The rugose surface (ib. ib., d ) upon the nasal region indicates the sutural attachment, 
or fractured base, of a horn-core. It is single, symmetrical, transversely ellipsoid in 
shape, 2-| inches across, and 1 inch in the skull’s axis. It is situated 2§ inches behind 
the fore end of the skull. 
