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relation of the older cave mammals (and perhaps of man) to 

 the Glacial period. The complete absence of this fauna from 

 the river gravels and other Post-Glacial deposits of this 

 district, taken with the former existence of a great develop- 

 ment of ice over the northern counties, renders it highly 

 probable that the latter was the agent which removed their 

 remains from all parts of the country to which it had access, 

 leaving them only in sheltered caves. 



" In this cave we find, above the beds containing the older 

 fauna, a deposit of laminated clay of gi'eat thickness, diflfer- 

 ing so much from the cave-earth above and below it as to 

 point to distinct physical conditions for its origin. Clay in 

 all respects similar, but containing scratched stones, has 

 been found intercalated with true glacial beds in the neigh- 

 bourhood, thus rendering the glacial origin of that in 

 the cave also highly probable. 



" Moreover, at the back of a great thickness of talus at 

 the entrance glaciated boulders have been found, resting on 

 the edges of the beds of lower cave-earth containing the 

 older mammals. All points considered, there is strong 

 cumulative evidence pointing to the formation of the lower 

 cave-earth at times at any rate prior to the close of the 

 Glacial period and probably earlier. It is to be hoped that 

 further investigations may settle these and other most 

 important questions." 



The objects found in the Victoria Cave will not be 

 removed from the county, but will be placed in a museum 

 attached to the Grammai' School at Giggleswick. 



Mr. Brockbank, F.G.S., differed from Mr. Dawkins as to 

 the mode in which the " talus" before the Victoria cave, and 

 the earth with which it is filled, were deposited, and conse- 

 quently as to the basis upon which his estimates of time 

 were based. He believed this cavern had been filled by the 

 agency of running water, which flowed through it in rainy 

 seasons, as is the case in the numerous other similar caves, such 



