ax INTRODUCTION. 
Yarmouth, from the Dogger Bank ;* and of Sir Antonio 
Brady, from the Thames Valley,t are now in the British 
Museum. The collection of Dr. Spurrell and Mr. Flaxman 
C. J. Spurrell, F.G.S., made in the neighbourhood of 
Crayford, is still in their possession at Belvedere, and 
comprises several specimens described by Falconer, Daw- 
kins, and Sanford. The fine series of remains obtained by 
Mr. Henry Keeping from the river gravels of Barrington, 
near Cambridge, is for the most part in the Woodwardian 
Museum and in the British Museum; Dr. Blackmore’s 
discoveries in the river gravels of Fisherton, near Salisbury, 
are preserved in the Salisbury Museum ; and most of the 
early isolated discoveries by private collectors, noticed in 
Owen’s Lritish Fosstl Mammals and Birds, have finally 
reached the British Museum. The most extensive series 
of Mammalian remains from the Turbary of Walthamstow, 
Essex, is also in the British Museum, having been col- 
lected by Mr. Joseph Wood.? 
The largest collections of Pleistocene Mammalia have 
been obtained from caverns,§ in the exploration of which 
Mr. Whidbey (or Whitby) and Dr. Buckland were the 
pioneers in Britain. At the instigation of Sir Joseph 
Banks, Mr. Whidbey explored the cave of Oreston, near 
Plymouth, and obtained the remains described by Sir Everard 
Home and Mr. W. Clift in the Phzlosophical Transactions 
for 1817 and 1823. The researches of the Oxford 
professor in the cave of Kirkdale, Yorkshire,|| led to the 
discovery of a large series of remains, now in the Museum 
of the University ; and the somewhat later investigations 
* W. Davies, ‘On a Collection of Pleistocene Mammals dredged 
off the Eastern Coast,’ Geol. Mag. |2] vol. v, 1878, p. 97. 
+t W. Davies, A Catalogue of the Pleistocene Vertebrata in the 
Collection of Sir Antonio Brady, 1874. 
t H. Woodward, ‘The Freshwater Deposits of the Lea Valley, 
Geol. Mag., vol. vi, 1869, p. 385. 
§ W. Boyd Dawkins, Cave Hunting, 1874. 
| W. Buckland, Religuie Diluviane, 1822. 
