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While Prestwich's researches in the valley of the 

 Somme had come to so successful an issue, he was ever 

 watchful of the evidence afforded by the excavations in 

 Brixham and other caverns, as will be seen by the 

 following letter : 



J. Prestwich to H. Falconer. [22nd June.] 



MY DEAR FALCONER, I have just received your note. Little 

 need be said about Brixham Cave, as your Palermo cave will be 

 the main business of the evening. Still I think some notice 

 desirable. It is not necessary to give all particulars a slight 

 sketch will suffice. The subject is altogether new at the Society. 

 Ramsay's plan is quite sufficient to give a general idea of the 

 place, and an abstract of your first report will give all the main 

 points. I can speak about all the later facts (which are few), 

 and I have asked Austen to bring his report, and written to 

 Bristow to ask him for his. I think it important to bring all 

 forward, as the two cases you have discovered so strongly support 

 one another. In haste, yours, &c. J. PRESTWICH. 



In the Journal of the Geological Society it is stated 

 that- 



On June 22, 1859, Joseph Prestwich, Esq., F.R.S., gave in a 

 few words the results of the examination of the Bone-cave at 

 Brixham in Devonshire. 



The cave had been traced along three large galleries, meeting 

 or intersecting one another at right angles. Numerous bones of 

 Rhinoceros tichorhinus, Bos, Equus, Cervus tarandus, Ursus 

 spelceus, and Hycena have been found, and several flint-imple- 

 ments have been met with in the cave-earth and gravel beneath. 

 One in particular was met with immediately beneath a fine 

 antler of a Eeindeer and a bone of the Cave-bear, which were 

 imbedded in the superficial stalagmite in the middle of the cave. 1 



1 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xvi. p. 189. See also remarks on the 

 exploration of Brixham Cavern, in Appendix, by Prof. T. G. Bonney, 

 F.R.S., to the 'Memoir of William Pengelly,' by his Daughter, 1897, pp. 

 296-300. 



