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British Association Committee (composed of members of our Club) is only 

 concerned with the Forest Camps, and all the work, and almost all the 

 money (excepting only the British Association grant of £10) has been sup- 

 plied by the Essex Field Club. The explorations made last year at Grays, 

 at the Dene-holes in Hangman's Wood, were entirely under the superin- 

 tendence of the Club, and the proposed complete exploratiou researches will 

 be also the work of the Essex Field Club. — William Cole (Hon. Sec, 

 Essex Field Club). 



Ossiferous Cave near Cappagh, Co. Waterford.— The collections from 

 the Bone Cave near Cappagh, mentioned in 'The Zoologist' for 1879, 

 p. 331, and again in the current number (p. 37), have been deposited in 

 the Science, and Art Museum, Kildare Street, Dublin, where they occupy a 

 separate case, and are arranged stratigraphically, the implements and other 

 relics of man from each stratum being placed along with the animal remains 

 discovered in the same deposit with them. One side of the case is wholly 

 devoted to the second stratum, or grey earth, in which the broken marrow- 

 bones and other smaller bones of the Irish Elk are associated with human 

 bones, charcoal, and chipped hammer stones. A neighbouring case in the 

 same museum is tilled with the remains of Mammoth, Bear, Reindeer, 

 Horse, and other pleistocene mammalia discovered from time to time in the 

 Shandon Cave, five miles from here. The latter collection was arranged 

 there by my much-lamented friend Prof. Leith Adams, whose influence and 

 example led me to the discovery of the former and other caves that contain 

 records of our past zoology, and by whom the animal remains were deter- 

 mined. — R. J. Ussher (Cappagh, co. Waterford). 



The Royal Theriotrophium near the Tower of London.— In reply to 

 the enquiry under this head (p. 37), I may observe that a little information 

 on the subject is given in Benuett's " Tower Menagerie " (Introduction, 

 p. 15) which may be of service. It is as follows: — "In 1708 some 

 improvement had taken place, for there were then, according to Strype, 

 no fewer than eleven Lions, two Leopards or Tigers, three Eagles, two 

 Owls, two Cats of the Mountain, and a Jackal. Maitland gives a much 

 longer catalogue as existing there in 1754, and this is still further extended 

 in a little pamphlet, entitled ' An Historical Description of the Tower of 

 London, and its Curiosities,' published in 1774." I have referred to 

 Maitlaud's « History of London,' 2 vols, folio (Ch. xvi., p. 172), 1756. He 

 describes at some length " the wild beasts and other savage animals iu the 

 Tower at this time, March 25th, 1754," and mentions "a Golden Eagle, 

 which has been kept there upwards of 90 years," and "several other 

 Eagles brought from different parts." — J 11. Gurney, Jun. (Northrepps, 

 Norwich). 



