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and representative collection of the bones and teeth of 

 animals including those of the Hyena, Mammoth, Horse, 

 Cave-bear, Cave-lion, Rhinoceros, Fox, &c, has been 

 secured. Peculiar interest attaches to certain other bone 

 fragments that have been identified as those of man, and 

 to a small collection of chipped flints and rounded stones. 

 The former have undoubtedly been worked and shaped bjr 

 man, whilst the latter may or may not be "pot-boilers," 

 as supposed by some investigators. 



A selection from these interesting objects was exhibited 

 by the Curator, Mr. Bolton, at two of the meetings of the 

 British Association, and he also communicated the substance 

 of the notes on the subject of the exploration, left by his 

 predecessor, Mr. E. Wilson. 



Feeling the importance of this discovery from a 

 scientific point of view, your Committee hope that the 

 investigation will be carried still further. The Council of 

 the British Association have shewn their interest in the 

 matter by ' making a grant of ^30 — towards any further 

 expense, and the Chairman of your Committee and the 

 Curator are now associated with Professor C. Iyloyd Morgan, 

 Professor W. Boyd Dawkins, and others, in determining 

 what further can be done. 



The following are among the purchases made by the 

 Committee : — 



A collection of local antiquities chiefly recovered from the bed of the Floating 



Harbour. 

 Several selections of Roman Imperial Coins to fill up vacancies in the series. 

 A small collection of antiquities from the Lake Dwellings at Neufchatel. 

 A Saxon sword and other contemporary objects from Kidlington, Oxon. 

 A fine specimen of cup-coral (Turbinaria) growing upon the shell of a pearl 



oyster, from the Great Barrier reef, Australia. 

 From Cape Colony, a Medicine Man's necklace, a Witch Doctor's horn, 



and a Necklace of Bok's Hair. 

 A pair of Mediaeval earthenware jars from an excavation in Orchard Street. 



