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figured by Mr. M'Enery *, nor of Hippopotamus major, alluded to by Prof. 

 Owen f as occurring in tbe cavern ; nor bare they found anything in the 

 least degree calculated to bring the statements alluded to into discredit- 

 Again, so far as their researches have gone, the Committee have not, like 

 Mr. Godwin-Austen, found the bones of man mixed up, in undisturbed soil, 

 with those of extinct animals + ; it will be seen, however, that there is no 

 a priori improbability in the statement of the distinguished geologist just 

 mentioned ; and the Committee would remind such as may be disposed to 

 attach importance to the fact that men's bones are not forthcoming as readily 

 as their implements, that in the black mould, as well as in the red loam of 

 the cavern, the only indications of man's existence are remnants of his handi- 

 work. Pottery, implements and ornaments in bone, metal, and stone, ' the 

 remnants of his fires, and the relics of his feasts are numerous, and betoken 

 the lapse of at least two milleniums ; but here, as well as in the older de- 

 posits below, the Committee have met with no vestige of his osseous system. 

 In conclusion, the Committee would observe that the value of their 

 labours is not to be measured by the discoveries, or rather the rediscoveries, 

 which they have made. They have not only disinterred a valuable body of 

 fact, but with it a confirmation of the concurrent statements of M'Enery, 

 Godwin-Austen, and the Committee of the Torquay Natural History Society ; 

 and have thereby more than doubled the amount of trustworthy evidence 

 which they have themselves produced. 



Report of a Committee " appointed to report on the changes which 

 they may consider desirable to make, if any, in the Rides of Zoolo- 

 gical Nomenclature drawn up by Mr. H. E. Strickland, at the 

 instance of the British Association at their Meeting in Manchester 

 in 1842." 



Pefokm of the Nomenclature of Zoology was a subject which occupied much 

 of the time of the late Hugh E. Strickland §. It was his object that this 

 reform should be brought forward under the auspices of the Pritish Asso- 

 ciation, and at a meeting of the Council of that body, held in London upon 

 11th of February, 1842, it was resolved — "That with a view of securing 

 attention to the following important subject, a Committee, consisting of Mr. 

 C. Darwin, Professor Henslow, Eev. L. Jenyns, Mr. "W. Ogilby, Mr. J. 

 Phillips, Dr. Pichardson, Mr. H. E. Strickland (reporter), Mr. J. 0. "Westwood, 

 be appointed, to consider of the rules by which the nomenclature of zoology 

 may be established on a uniform and permanent basis ; the Peport to be 

 presented to the Zoological Section, and submitted to its committee at the 

 Manchester Meeting"^. 



This Committee met at various times in London, and the following gen- 

 tlemen were added to it, and assisted in its labours : — W. J. Proderip, 

 Professor Owen, W. E. Shuckard, G. P. Waterhouse, and W. Yarrell. An 

 outline of the proposed code was drawn up and circulated, and many valuable 



* Cavern Researches, p. 32, and plate F. (8vo Edition). 



t British Fossil Mammals and Birds, p. 410 (1846). 



J Trans. Geol. Soc., Second Series, vol. vi. part 2. pp. 444 & 446. 



§ See Memoirs of Hugh Edwin Strickland, by Sir W. Jardine, Bart., pp. clxxv. and 375. 



^f Report of Twelfth Meeting of the British Association held at Manchester, June 1842, 



