Animal products; . rstgroup. The reindeer differs from the rest of the genus in thepresence of antlers in both sexes, and in the great developmentof the brow antlers. The English park or fallow deer (Cervitsdama, Dama platyceros) is referable to the flat horned group. The number of stags and hinds in Scotland is rather more than 10,000.* * In the Bethnal Green Collection there are mounted heads of the fallowdeer, male and female, of the roe, male and female, the red deer, male andemale, a fine head and antlers of the wapiti {Cervus canadensis), of the roebuck, N i78 COMPOSITION OF DEER-HORN. D
Animal products; . rstgroup. The reindeer differs from the rest of the genus in thepresence of antlers in both sexes, and in the great developmentof the brow antlers. The English park or fallow deer (Cervitsdama, Dama platyceros) is referable to the flat horned group. The number of stags and hinds in Scotland is rather more than 10,000.* * In the Bethnal Green Collection there are mounted heads of the fallowdeer, male and female, of the roe, male and female, the red deer, male andemale, a fine head and antlers of the wapiti {Cervus canadensis), of the roebuck, N i78 COMPOSITION OF DEER-HORN. Deer-horn produces a great quantity of gelatine by decoction,and the raspings of deers horn are occasionally employed indomestic economy to furnish what is supposed to be a nourishingjelly. The waste pieces are sometimes boiled down for size inthe cloth-making districts. Submitted to the action of heat theproduct is the same as that of most animal substances. It usedto be largely employed for the produce of HEAD AND ANTLERS OF THE ARCTIC REINDEER. The first year the stag has properly no horns, but only a kind ofcorneous excrescence, short, rough, and covered, with a thin, hairy an unusually fine head and antlers of the Cervus axis, two heads with antlersof the reindeer, and varieties of deer horns from India, Siam, &c. ; also feet ofthe elk or moose formed into paper racks or pockets in Case 96; a stuffed headof the eland, and horns of the waterbok and various other antelopes. GROWTH OF STAG-HORN. 179 skin; the second year the horns are single and straight; the thirdyear they have two antlers ; the fourth, three ; the fifth, four; andthe sixth, five. When arrived at the sixth year the antlers do notalways increase, and though the number may amount to six orseven on each side, the stags age is then estimated rather bythe size and thickness of the branch that sustains them thanfrom their number. The proportional length, direction, andcurvature of the antlers vary, and it
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