24 REPORT — 1867. 



ses notes et ses dessius de 1S41 reprcsentent cet objet autremcnt qu'on ne le 

 voit maintenaut." — Comptes Eendus, torn. Ixiv. (17 Juin 1867). 



Traiislation. — Eesume: — Apart from the iudications furnished by the maps 

 of Lohrmann and Beer and Miidler, to ■which we are able to oppose the contra- 

 indication of Lahire and of Schroter, we actually possess only one positive docu- 

 ment on the change which Linne has undergone : this is the affirmation of 

 M. Schmidt, that his notes and his drawings in 1841 represent this object 

 otherwise than as we now see it. 



M. DE Beaumont, " Au surplus on doit desirer que les observations rela- 

 tives a la permanence absolue ou a de tres legeres, alterations des accidents 

 de la surface lunaire se multiplient, car une seule alteration meme tres legere, 

 suffirait si elle etait bien constatee poi;r etablir que la vie geologique encore 

 dans I'interieur de la lune aussi bien que dans I'interieur de la terre." — 

 Comptes Eendus, torn. Ixiv. (17 Juin 1867) p. 1242. 



Translation.— 'Moreover it is to be desii-ed that observations relative 

 to the absolute permanence, or to very small alterations of the details of the 

 lunar surface, should be multiplied ; for even only one very small change, if 

 it were fullj- proved, would be sufficient to establish that geological life is 

 still in the interior of the moon as well as in the interior of the earth. 



Eespighi. " Je crois done pouvoir conclure que le cratere n'a pas eprouve 

 de changement sensible ou du moins que les arguments produits en faveur 

 de ce changement sont vagues et ue sont pas concluants." 



Translation. — I therefore think that we may conclude that a sensible change 

 of the crater is not proved, or at least that the arguments produced in favour 

 of this change are vague and inconclusive. 



I am greatly indebted to my friend Mr. Lynn, of the Eoyal Observatory, 

 Greenwich, for his assistance in kindly translating the records and opinions 

 of Foreign observers, and also in furnishing the additional observations by 

 Herr Schmidt. -yy^ ^ g 



Third Report of the Committee far Exploring Kent's Cavern, Devon- 

 shire. The Committee consisting of Sir Charles Lyell, Bart., 

 Professor Phillips, Sir John LubhocKj Bart., Mr. John Evans, 

 Mr. Edavard Vivian, Mr. George Busk^ and Mr. William Pen- 

 GELLY (Reporter). 



The Eeports presented by the Committee, in 186.5 and 1866, render it 

 unnecessary to give a detailed description of either the situation or the cha- 

 racter of Kent's Hole. The Cavern may be briefly stated to consist of two 

 parallel series of chambers and galleries — an eastern and a western ; and to 

 have two external openings or entrances — a northern and a southern. The 

 entrances occur in one and the same low vertical clifl^, on the eastern side of 

 the hill in which the Cavern is situated. They are nearly on the same level, 

 about 50 feet apart, from 180 to 190 feet above the level of mean tide, and 

 about 70 feet above the bottom of the vallej' immediately adjacent. 



The Committee have found it convenient to assign names to the various 

 branches of the Cavern ; and in order to avoid the risk of confusion, they 

 have retained those which had been previously bestowed by the Eev. J. 

 M'Enery and others. 



The northern entrance opens, through a short narrow passage, into a 



