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ELK, or MOOSE, the largest of all the deer tribe, distinguished from other members of the Cervidae by the form of the antlers of the males. These arise as cylindrical beams projecting on each side at right angles to the middle line of the skull, which after a ...

ELKHART, a city of Elkhart county, Indiana, U.S.A., at the confluence of the Elkhart and St Joseph rivers, about 100 m. E. of Chicago. Pop. (1890) 11,360; (1900) 15,184, of whom 1353 were foreign-born; (1910 census) 19,282. Elkhart is at the junction of the we ...

ELKINGTON, GEORGE RICHARDS (1801-1865), founder of the electroplating industry in England, was born in Birmingham on the 1 7th of October 1801, the son of a spectacle manufacturer. Apprenticed to his uncle?, silver platers in Birmingham, he became, on their de ...

ELAND (=elk), the Dutch name for the krgcst of the South African antelopes (Taurotragus oryx), a. species near akin to the kudu, but with horns present in both sexes, and their spiral much closer, being in fact screw-like instead of corkscrew-like. There is al ...

ETTRICK, a river and parish of Selkirkshire, Scotland.' The river rises in Capel Fell (2223 ft.), a hill in the extreme S.W. of the shire, and flows in a north-easterly direction for 32 m. to its junction with the Tweed, its principal affluent being the Yarrow ...

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... Tennant (18231906), was M.P. for Glasgow from 1878 to 1880 and for Peebles and Selkirk from 1880 to 1886; he was created a baronet in 1885.

... er part from the vicinity of Atoka. WEST CENTRAL COLORADO Eocene or later. West Elk breccia 3000 ft. Unconformity. Cretaceous. Ruby formation 2500 ft. Unconformity. Ohio formation (local only) 200 ft. Unconformity. Laramie formation 2000 ft. Montana formation ...