258 Miscellaneous. 
longing to the historic and prehistoric ages, including a Romano-. 
British enamelled bronze brooch, of the same pattern as one found 
in the Victoria Cave, fragments of pottery, human bones and 
teeth, and bones of both wild and domestic animals. 
The distribution of the remains found in the Church Hole Cave 
agreed generally with that above described ; traces of human occu- 
pation and remains of the Hyzna occurred both in the cave- 
earth and in the red sand and clay. The bones found indicated the 
following animals :—Lion, Polecat, Hyzena, Fox, Wolf, Bear, Rein- 
deer, Irish Elk, Bison, Horse, Woolly Rhinoceros, Mammoth, and 
Hare—all common to both the cave-deposits, except the Lion, 
which was found only in the cave-earth, and the Polecat, of which 
a single jaw occurred in the red sand. The latter contained a 
larger proportion of the remains than in the Robin-Hood Cave; but, 
as in the latter, the quartzite implements were more abundant in 
the lower strata of the deposits. Among the articles of human 
workmanship was a perfect and well-shaped bone needle. The 
superficial soil of the Church Hole Cave also contained articles of 
the historic and prehistoric age, including a bronze fibula, frag- 
ments of pottery (one medieval), and bones of man and animals. 
From the presence of these objects in the surface-soil the author 
inferred that the caves of Creswell Crags, like those of Yorkshire 
and elsewhere, were used as places of refuge by the Brit-welsh 
during the conquest of the country by the English. 
After noticing the conditions of the fossil bones found in the 
caves, the author proceeded to remark upon the general results of 
the explorations with regard to their Pleistocene fauna, and con- 
cluded that there is no evidence from these or other caves in this 
country to prove that their faunas are either pre- or interglacial, 
and that we have no proof of the existence of pre- or interglacial 
man in Britain. 


MISCELLANEOUS. 
On the Migrations and Metamorphoses of the Tapeworms of 
the Shrews. By M. A. Vixtor. 
Dusarpin discovered and described several species of tapeworms in- 
habiting the intestines of the shrews: thus Z’enia scutigera lives in 
Sorex tetragonurus ; while the little Sorex araneus harbours three 
species, namely 7’, scalaris, tiara, and pistillum. Dujardin was aec- 
quainted with the various stages of the development of these species, 
except the place and manner of the passage from the proscolex to 
the scolex, a gap in our knowledge of their history which M. Villot 
has filled up by the discovery that this change takes place in 
Glomeris, and that the cystic parasite described by him last year 
under the name of Staphylocystis biliarius represents this stage in 
the development of aspecies very near to 7’. scutigera and T’. scalaris, 
which, moreover, are very closely allied. In these two species, 
according to M. Villot, the hooks are of the same form and dimen- 
