Paper, 'A discourse concerning the large hornes frequently found under ground in Ireland concluding from them, that the great American deer called a moose was formerly common in that island: with remarks on some other things natural to that country' by Thomas Molyneux
Reference number: CLP/15i/51
Date: April 1697
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Molyneux presents a theory that moose (Alces alces) were once found in Ireland, due to the discovery of remains of an animal which appears to have been of the genus Cervinum, with round and branched horns. He shares the dimensions of the horns, and notes similar specimens having been found in County Clare, Ballymackward, Turvy and Portumny [Ireland].
Subject: Zoology / Zooarchaeology
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'A discourse concerning the large horns frequently found under ground in Ireland, concluding from them that the great American deer, call'd a moose, was formerly common in that Island: with remarks on some other things natural to that country'
Read to the Royal Society on 28 April 1697
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Thomas Molyneux, Paper, 'A discourse concerning the large hornes frequently found under ground in Ireland concluding from them, that the great American deer called a moose was formerly common in that island: with remarks on some other things natural to that country' by Thomas Molyneux, April 1697, CLP/15i/51, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_15i_51/paper-a-discourse-concerning-the-large-hornes-frequently-found-under-ground-in-ireland-concluding-from-them-that-the-great-american-deer-called-a-moose-was-formerly-common-in-that-island-with-remarks-on-some-other-things-natural-to-that-country-by-thomas-molyneux, accessed on 10 February 2025
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II. A discourse concerning the large horns frequently found under ground in Ireland, concluding from them that the great American deer, call'd a moose, was formerly common in that Island: with remarks on some other things natural to that country External link, opens in new tab.
Author: Thomas Molyneux
Date: 1st April 1697
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1695.0083
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