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The animal remains fonnd in both caves, as defined by Mr. W. Davies, 

 P.G.S., of the British Museum, comprise teeth and bones of eleven genera 

 and sixteen species, as shown by the annexed list : — 



Lion (Felis Zeo, var. spelma). Bovine (Bos ? Bison?). 



Wild cat (F. catusferus). Great Irish deer (Cervus giganteus) . 



Spotted hysena (H. crocuta, var. Red deer (Cervus elaphiis). 



speloea). Roebuck (0. capreohis). 



Wolf (Canis lupus). Reindeer (C. tarandus). 



Fox (G. vulpes). Horse (Eqtius cabalhis). 



Bear (Ursus, sp.). Woolly rhmoceros (B.fdcliorrhinus). 



Badger (Meles taxus). Mammoth (Elephas primigenius) . 

 Wild boar (Sus scrofa). 



Fourteenth Report of the Committee, consisting of Professors J. 

 Prestr'ich, W. Boyd Dawkins, T. McK. Hughes, and T. G-. 

 BoNNEY, Dr. H. W. Crosskey (Secretary), and Messrs. C. E. De 

 Range, H. G-. Fordham, J, E. Lee, D. Mackintosh, W. Pengelly, 

 J. Plant, and R. H. Tiddeman, appointed for the purpose of 

 recording the position, height above the sea, lithological cha- 

 racters, size, and origin of the Erratic Blocks of England, Wales, 

 and Ireland, reporting other matters of interest connected with 

 the same, and taking measures for their preservation. 



The attention of the Committee has been called by Professor Hughes 

 to boulders near Kendal and Settle, which are perched npon pedestals of 

 limestone, and are striated in the direction of the main iceflow of the 

 district, whereas the surface of the surrounding block bears no traces of 

 glaciation. 



These boulders appear to have been transported to their present 

 position, and placed npon the bare striated rock under exceptional local 

 conditions, and the pedestals appear to be portions of the surrounding 

 rock protected from denuding agents by the overlying boulder. 



The Committee hope to be able to secure the preservation of these 

 boulders. 



Mr. Plant reports a remarkable assemblage of blocks in the drift in 

 the valley of the Soar, near Leicester. Excavations to the depth of 30 

 feet have been made in various parts of the river valley, and after passing 

 through the alluvium the boulder clay has been reached. Thousands of 

 erratics have been found. Half of the erratics were from the Charnwood 

 district, and of the remainder a great many were from the Permian sand- 

 stones and Carboniferous rocks of the Ashby coalfield, with blocks of 

 mountain limestone from Staunton, Harold, and Breedon — a distance of 

 fifteen to eighteen miles north-west. The I'est are from the east side of 

 the Pennine chain, forty to fifty miles distant north-east. 



On a ridge near the Victoria Road, south of Leicester, upwards of 200 

 erratics have been uncovered. Millstone grit, mountain limestone, and 

 lower oolite blocks, more or less striated, were found mixed with Cham- 

 wood syenites. The height of the ridge is 260 feet above the sea, and 

 110 feet above the present valley of the Soar. 



