Animal products; . ags in Scotland seldom present more than ten ortwelve points. There is a head still preserved at Mauritzbergwhich presents the enormous number of sixty-six points. Itwas killed by the first king of Prussia, and presented by thatmonarch to Augustus, Elector of Saxony and King of the Collection at the Chateau of Wohrad, the hunting resi-dence of the Lordship of Fauenberg, there are one hundred andnine stags heads, of which only seventeen are under fourteenpoints. There are occasionally curious contortions in the horns. Murray, in the Edinburgh New Philosophical
Animal products; . ags in Scotland seldom present more than ten ortwelve points. There is a head still preserved at Mauritzbergwhich presents the enormous number of sixty-six points. Itwas killed by the first king of Prussia, and presented by thatmonarch to Augustus, Elector of Saxony and King of the Collection at the Chateau of Wohrad, the hunting resi-dence of the Lordship of Fauenberg, there are one hundred andnine stags heads, of which only seventeen are under fourteenpoints. There are occasionally curious contortions in the horns. Murray, in the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, de-scribes those of an old reindeer, but small in size and with small USES OF BUCK-HORN. 181 horns. The horns have met with a distortion, by which theyhave a curious bend in the middle, as shown in this figure. Thecause, whatever it may have been, has affected them both equally,which is not usually the case where horns are distorted. It maybe that the poor animal, when its horns were still soft and young,. got entangled among brushwood; and that here is the silent evi-dence of long struggles on the part of the animal, and of perhapsdays of famine before it succeeded in freeing itself from the bondswhich held it. Or it may be merely a distortion consequent uponthe old age of the animal, for we often find the horns in old deerstunted and distorted, although it is not usual to find them sosymmetrically disfigured. The horns of the deer, more properly called antlers/ aresolid processes from the frontal bone, and possess the chemicaland physical properties of true bone. After being sawn and filedto the required shape, the exterior is left in its rough and naturalstate, which, besides being ornamental, is well adapted for thehandles of knives and instruments requiring a firm grasp. In theGerman States, very pretty and delicate objects are carved fromthis material. Buck-horn is principally used now for handles of carving-forks I»2 ELK HORNS. and knives, pocket knives, solid
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