366 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
find fossil bones there. He was soon followed by Mr. (now Sir) 
W. C. Trevelyan, who not only found bones, but had a plate of 
them engraved. In 1825, the Rev. J. MacEnery, an Lrish Roman 
Catholic priest residing in the family of Mr. Cary, of Tor Abbey, 
Torquay, first visited the cavern, when he, too, found teeth and 
bones, of which he published a plate. Soon after, he made another 
visit, accompanied by Dr. Buckland, when he had the good fortune 
to discover a flint implement—the first instance, he tells us, of such 
a relic being noticed in any cavern (see Trans. Devon Assoc. iii. 
p- 441). Before the close of 1825 he commenced a series of more 
or less systematic diggings, and continued them until, and perhaps 
after, the summer of 1829 (zbid. p. 295). Preparations appear to 
have been made to publish the results of his labours; a prospectus 
was issued, numerous plates were lithographed, it was generally 
believed that the MS. was almost ready, and the only thing needed 
was a list of subscribers sufficient to justify publication, when, alas ! 
on February 18, 1841, before the printer had received any “ copy,” 
before even the world of science had accepted his anthropological 
discoveries—before the value of his labours was known to more than 
a very few—Mr. MacEnery died at Torquay. After his decease 
his MS. could not be discovered, and its loss was duly deplored. 
Nevertheless, it was found after several years, and, having under- 
gone varieties of fortune, became the property of Mr. Vivian, of 
Torquay, who, having published portions of it in 1859, presented 
it in 1867 to the Torquay Natural History Society, whose property 
it still remains. In 1869 I had the pleasure of printing the whole 
in the ‘Transactions’ of the Devonshire Association. Whilst 
Mr. MacEnery was conducting his researches, a few independent 
diggings, on a less extensive scale, were taken by other gentlemen. 
The principal of these was Mr. Godwin-Austen, the well-known 
geologist, whose papers fully bore out all that MacEnery had stated 
(see Trans. Geol. Soc. Lond., 2nd series, vi. p. 446). In 1846 a 
sub-committee of the Torquay Natural History Society undertook 
the careful exploration of very small parts of the cavern, and their 
Report was entirely confirmatory of the statements of their 
predecessors—that undoubted flint implements did occur, mixed 
with the remains of extinct mammals, in the cave-earth, beneath a 
thick floor of stalagmite. The sceptical position of the authorities 
in geological science remained unaffected, however, until 1858, 
when the discovery and systematic exploration of a comparatively 
