Some time ago I learned from the Rev. George Wilson, Glenluce, that he had recently obtained possession of a " palmated antler and a fragment of largo deer horn with three tines." At my request, he was good enough to promise that he would send them for my inspection, and he has now not only sent the horns, but also presented them to our National Museum, along with a large collection of stone implements. Of course, the Fellows are all aware how very much we have been, and are indebted to Mr

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... n for quite a series of collections of all kinds of stone implements, &c., beautifully arranged, from his district of Wigtownshire. The palmated antler is of great interest, It is apparently a horn of the left side of a true Elk. Some years ago, in 1871, I brought before the Society a paper giving details of the true Elk for the first time discovered in Scotland. I was then able to bring together instances of its discovery from various parts of Scotland. This specimen furnishes vis with a new locality in the south of Scotland. It is very distinct in character, the palm spreading out into its three branches, the broad palmated brow antler to the front, the beam-like portion running straight outward from the burr of the horn, and the large palm or back antler running apparently from the whole of the back part of the beam. It was drawn out of the estuary of the River Cree, Mr Wilson informs me, somewhere between Newton-Stewart and Creetown, in a salmon net, and was given to him by the man who got them; for the two horns, I understand, were got at the same time. VOL. xvn. . Y