Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . hat by which injuries of osseousstructures are made good in man. Atfirst they are covered with a sensitiveskin or velvet; but as development pro-ceeds this skin dries up and peels oft;a bony ridge or burr being formed onthe antler just above its base of attach-ment to the frontal bone. When fullydeveloped the antlers consist of a mainstem or beam, carrying one or morebranches or tynes. When first pro-duced, in the second year after birth,the antler consists only of the beam
Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . hat by which injuries of osseousstructures are made good in man. Atfirst they are covered with a sensitiveskin or velvet; but as development pro-ceeds this skin dries up and peels oft;a bony ridge or burr being formed onthe antler just above its base of attach-ment to the frontal bone. When fullydeveloped the antlers consist of a mainstem or beam, carrying one or morebranches or tynes. When first pro-duced, in the second year after birth,the antler consists only of the beam,the animal being then termed a next year a basal branch or brow-tyne is developed; it is then termed aspayed; and in the following year asecond branch or *tres-tyne, directedforward, appears above the former, thehinder portion of the beam constitutingthe royal. Should the antler developfurther, it is by the more or less com-plete branching of these tynes; theroyal-tyne in particular, being veryliable to become sub-divided in succes-sive years. The musk-deer and thewater-deer of China have no horns. Deer. FALLOW DEER are very generally distributed, but nonehave yet been discovered in either Aus-tralia or South Africa. The largest liv-ing form is the true elk (Alces palmatHs)or moose, while the Indian muntjacs areamong the smallest, the chevroatins be-ing now placed in a group by tne reindeer {Cervus farandus),no member of the group has been com-pletely domesticated. In the fossil statedeer are not found earlier than in thePliocene period, while the best knownextinct form, the Irish deer, or Irishelk, occurs in peat bogs or cave deposits. DEERFIELD, a town of Franklin co., Mass.; on the Connecticut river, and the Boston and Maine and the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroads; 33 20—Vol. Ill—Cyc DEERGRASS 302 DEFLUXION •miles N. of Springfield. It is principallyengaged in agriculture and the manu-facture of pocket-books, and has a highscho
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