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Title: Transactions of the Zoological Society of London
Year: 1835 (1830s)
Authors: Zoological Society of London
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: (London) : Published for the Zoological Society of London by Academic Press
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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Forest-Bed is itself an evidence of its relativeantiquity, while the existence of the species in the Red Crag (Boyd Dawkins) carriesthis form further back than any of the other races of Giant Deer. EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXI. Fig. 1. Cervus belgrandi.—Skull and antlers, from behind. X y. The specimen was obtained at Pakefield, near Lowestoft, a, burr; b, first tine; d, d, back-tine. The tines c, which are not visihle in this position, come off from the front edge of the beam, midway between b and d.Fig. 2. View of the same specimen from the right side. The figure having been drawn from a photograph, the parts of the right antler appear much larger than they really are. b, first tine ; c, second tine; d, d, back-tine.Fig. 3. Atlas vertebra of the same specimen, from the ventral side. The end of the right transverse process is partially obscured by the matrix.Fig. 4. Axis vertebra of the same specimen, from the right side. The end of the neural spine is partially obscured by the matrix.
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n <Pi CD mw o L 97 ) V. On a Specimen of Cervus belgrandi Lart. (C. verticornis Dawk.) from the Forest-Bed of East Anglia. By Sidney F. Harmee, Sc.D., F.R.S., Superintendent ofthe University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge.1 Received April 24, read June 6, 1899. (Plate XXI.) lHE specimen which forms the subject of the present paper is from the Forest-Bedseries of Pakefield, near Lowestoft, where it was found as a result of the greatdestruction of the cliff due to the high tides of November 1897. The pieces wereobtained from the men who had dug it out by my assistant, Ernest Lane, to whom isdue the credit of recognizing the importance of the specimen, which is now in theUniversity Museum of Zoology at Cambridge. I have been unable to find a record of any specimen belonging to this species whichwill compare with the present one in completeness. The posterior part of the skull,including the whole of the brain-case, is in excellent condition. The anterior parts,from the orbital region, ar

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