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I.—Note on the Antlers of a Red-Deer (Cervus elaphus, Linn.) from Alport, Youlgreave, near Bakewell, Derbyshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

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In 1891, Frank S. Goodwin, Esq., of Bakewell, Derbyshire, presented to the British Museum (Natural History) a pair of antlers of red-deer, with fragments of the calvarium attached, which had been obtained, with other cervine remains, from a tufaceous deposit of comparatively modern date near Bakewell, Derbyshire.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1898

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page 50 note 1 Tuft (tufa) is a stone formed by the (calcareous) deposit left by water passing through beds of sticks, roots, vegetables, etc., of which there is a large stratum at Matlock Bath,inthis county.

page 51 note 1 See also British Deer and their Horns,” by Millais, J. G., p. 96, fig. 2, and p. 105. (Roy. 4to; Sotheran & Co., 1897.)Google Scholar