INTRODUCTION. XXI 
of the Rev. J. MacEnery in Kent’s Hole, near Torquay, 
were rewarded by the unearthing of numerous similar 
specimens, which were sold on that gentleman's death, 
and chiefly reached the British Museum and the Museum 
of the Geological Society.* The Caverns of Brixham 
and Kent’s Hole have been systematically explored by 
Committees of the Royal Society and the British Associa- 
tion, under the superintendence of Mr. W. Pengelly, F.R.S.; 
the principal specimens met with being presented to the 
British Museum, while a representative series is preserved 
in the Museum of the Natural History Society of Torquay. 
The Caverns of the Mendip Hills were explored by the 
Rev. D. Williams and Messrs. W. Beard, W. Ayshford 
Sanford, F.G.S., and Professor Boyd Dawkins, F-.R.5., 
whose discoveries now enrich the Taunton Museum; and 
the well-known Cresswell Caves, near Worksop, Derby- 
shire, have furnished to the Rev. J. M. Mello, F.G.S., Pro- 
fessor Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S., and Mr. T. Heath, the fine 
series of remains at present in the Museum of the Owens 
College, Manchester. The Victoria Cave, near Settle, was 
investigated by a Committee of the British Association, 
the resulting collection being now in the Museum of the 
Giggleswick Grammar School. From a cave in Teesdale 
Mr. James Backhouse, F.G.S., has made an important 
collection, now in his private Museum at York;ft and 
the contents of the fissures of Windy Knoll, Derby- 
shire, and Raygill, Yorkshire, are at present respectively 
in the Museums of Manchester and Leeds. The latest 
discoveries of Messrs. E. Bouverie Luxmoore, F.G.S., and 
Dr. Henry Hicks, F.R.S., in the caves of the Vale of 
Clwyd, near St. Asaph, have recently been presented to the 
British Museum. All the principal collections of Verte- 
* J. MacEnery, Cavern Researches, with numerous plates, edited 
by E. Vivian, 1859. 
+ J. Backhouse and W. Davies, Geol. Mag. [2] vol. vii, 1880, 
Pp. 346, pls. xi, xii. 
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