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IN the interesting essay by Dr. Jeitteles, translated by Dr. Sclater, in NATURE, vol. xi. p. 71, many cases of the reputed discovery of the remains of the Fallow Deer are collected together to prove that the animal is indigenous in Northern Europe, and not imported from the south, as heretofore has been supposed by many able naturalists, such as Blasius, Steenstrup, Rütimeyer, the late Prof. Ed. Lartet, and others. These cases are accepted by Dr. Sclater without criticism, and are deemed by him to place the importation theory, as it may be termed, in the category of “ancient fables” The question, however, seems to me, after many years' study of the fossil and recent Cervidæ of this country and of France, a very difficult one, not to be decided off-hand, and certainly not without a strict analysis of the value of evidence such as that recorded by Dr. Jeitteles, whose method and facts appear to be equally in error.
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DAWKINS, W. On the Northern Range of the Fallow Deer in Europe . Nature 11, 112–114 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/011112b0
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