Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history (1898)
Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889, Holder, Joseph B. (Joseph Bassett), 1824-1888, Prang, Louis, 1824-1909, lithographer, Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884, Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889. Illustrated natural history, National Zoological Park (U.S.), former owner. DSI · New York : Selmar Hess · leaf 309
rved that the horns of this animal were dropped, like those of the deer; yet no definite information was elicited or recorded. In 1848, Dr. Canfield, of California, sent the information to the Smithsonian Institute, but the circumstance was so contrary to the usual or known examples, that no… … creature has a hollow, deciduous horn, which envelops a persistent core, a process of the skull. This shell is true horn, and has the same general system of growth as other horns, although it is cast annually, like antlers of deer. It thus reveals an intermediate link between the two principal…
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