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purposely closed by a large block of stone. When discovered 

 they were in great confusion, having, in the opinion of MM. 

 Dupont and Van Beneclen, been disturbed and re-arranged by 

 water. The form of the cavern, and the fact that the opening 

 was in great measure closed by the above-mentioned stone, 

 seem to me to speak strongly against this suggestion, and I 

 should rather regard the disturbance of the bones as due to 

 foxes and badgers. The Trou de la Naulette contained a 

 very remarkable lower jaw, of which M. Dupont says that 

 " regardee clans la face interne, elle offre une telle proclivite 

 d'arriere en avant de la partie symphysaire qu'on est porte a 

 y voir un prognatisme tout animal. Les apophyses geni ne 

 sont pas indiquees ; les fossettes laterales sont tres-prononcees 

 et le rebord mentonnier est reduit a son minimum. Les 

 alveoles des canines, bien que tres-rapprochees des alveoles 

 des incisives, et les molaires, nous rappellent la disposition 

 qu'on observe sur la machoire du singe. En effet, 1'alveole 

 qui logeait la canine est fort vaste et bombee a la face 

 externe. Ce qui semble plus etrange encore, c'est que les 

 trois alveoles des grosses molaires presentent absolument 

 1'ordre typique du maxillaire simien par Tang-mentation pro- 

 gressive des alveoles de la premiere a la deuxierne et a la 

 troisieme molaire." 



The celebrated cavern of Kent's Hole, near Torquay, was 

 examined by Mr. MacEnery as long ago as 1825. He did 

 not, however, publish his notes on the subject, and they 

 remained in manuscript until 1859, when Mr. Vivian suc- 

 ceeded in obtaining them. Mr. MacEnery found human bones, 

 flint flakes, etc., but all either on the surface or in disturbed 

 soil, so that on the whole he regarded them, though apparently 

 with much doubt, as posterior to the remains of the cave-bear, 

 hysena, etc. 



In the year 1840, Mr. God win- Austen communicated to the 

 Geological Society a memoir on the Geology of the South- 



