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2. " Further Discoveries in the Cresswell Caves." By Prof. 

 Boyd Dawkins, M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S., and the llev. J. M. Mello, 

 M.A., F.G.S., with notes on the Mammalia hy the former. 



This paper contained the account of digging-operations carried on 

 in one of the smaller caves of the Cresswell Crags, known as 

 Mother Grundy's Parlour. The authors described the occurrence in 

 the red clay and ferruginous sand of this cave of bones of Hippo- 

 potamus and the Leptorhine Bhinoceros, proving the existence of 

 these animals in the wooded valleys of the basin of the Upper 

 Trent at the time of the accumulation of those deposits ; while at 

 the same time, so far as the evidence goes, there was an absence of 

 Palaeolithic man, of the Beindeer, and of Horses, while Hyaenas were 

 abundant. In a subsequent period, represented in all the caves by 

 the Bed Sand, the Mammoth, Woolly Bhinoceros, Horse, and Bein- 

 deer inhabited the vicinity, and were subject to the attacks both of 

 Hyaenas and of human hunters, whose quartzite implements prove 

 them to have belonged to the same people whose traces are found in 

 the river-deposits. In the breccia and upper cave-earth of the larger 

 caves the existence of the Palasolithic hunter is evidenced by flint 

 implements resembling those of Solutre, accompanied by implements 

 of bone and antler. Associated with these was the incised figure 

 of a horse described in a former paper. The authors finally dwelt 

 briefly upon the characteristics of the caves in prehistoric and 

 historic times, and indicated some of the anthropological points of 

 interest connected therewith. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 

 On the Notodelphyidee. By M. L. Keeschnek. 



The author describes two new genera of the curious Copepod 

 family Notodelphyidae, each including a single species, which he 

 names Paryphes longipes and Dorsipys uncinata *. He prefaces his 

 descriptions with some corrections of previous notions as to certain 

 points in the organization of these crustaceans. He shows that the 

 brood- chamber, which is usually regarded as contained within the 

 body-cavity, is formed, in the majority of JNotodelphyidae, by a dupli- 

 cature of the integumcut of the body proceeding from the dorsal 

 surface of the fourth and from the sides of the fourth and fifth 

 segments, but that in two genera this duplicature is inserted even 

 upon the second thoracic segment. He further indicates that an 



* The former generic name was preoccupied by Burmeister in 1835 

 for a genus of Rhynchota ; the latter, if it has an}' derivation at all, is 

 probably a mongrel compound of Latin and Greek. We hope the author 

 will take the opportunity of changing both names before his paper is 

 printed. 



