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1780 from a quarry at Alport, Youlgreave, Derbyshire (see p. 96). It took more than a 
little hunting to rediscover this specimen in the ossiferous caves beneath Cromwell Road, but 
my friend Sir Edmund Loder volunteered to have a day’s search in the vaults and look over 
the great collection of duplicates, which are not as a rule seen by the public. He told me of 
his find, so a few days afterwards, with the assistance of Mr. Barlow, I rigged up the specimen, 
placing the broken left horn at the same angle as the right, and made a sketch of it. I must 
confess I was astonished at the span of this head ; all the other measurements too are exceptional. 
The back top branch of the left horn is missing, but were it placed on the head in the same 
position as that on the perfect right horn, the span over all could not be very much less than 
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58 or 60 inches, which we know to be a remarkable width even for a first-class wapiti head 
(see p. 96). 
There are other splendid examples in the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, 
notably a great horn found in the gravel deposits at Ilford in Essex, a black and rough horn 
of more recent date found at Hammersmith, and a splendid complete head in the British 
Gallery, presented by Mr. Jabez Allies, found near Worcester. 
In the lacustrine deposits of Yorkshire and in the peat bogs of Hampshire good heads 
are frequently found, and Mr. Wolfe Barry informs me that in making railway cuttings in 
Northamptonshire and South Wales good and complete heads have sometimes been un¬ 
earthed. He has also several fine specimens obtained during the making of the Cardiff 
docks. The peat bogs, however, yield the most beautiful heads, as the horns are generally 
perfect and in good preservation. The Duke of Westminster kindly sends me a photograph 
of a splendid specimen obtained recently from the peat moss at Combermere, Cheshire. 
In Scotland, as excavations and cuttings are seldom made to any depth, red deer heads, 
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