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the origin of the excavation, I am informed by Mr. Witty, of 
Cottingham, that his father, who was agent for the late Thomas 
Thompson, the former owner of Cottingham Castle estate, had 
given him an account of it. 
It seems that in the winter cf 1812, in order to relieve local 
distress, Mr. Thompson employed a number of men to excavate 
this chalk for the purpose of repairing his roads, etc., and there 
seems to be no reason to question this statement, though the 
various local rumours in regard to the origin of this cave are 
both extensive and peculiar. 
The most interesting fact with regard to the find, however, 
seems to be that this is the first example in Yorkshire of chalk 
being quarried in this underground manner, after the plan of 
the well-known ‘dene holes’ of the south-east of England. 
All our Yorkshire chalk quarries are made on the surface, and, 
of course, some of them go to an enormous depth. A recent 
visitor to the quarry, who is now 82 vears of age, remembers 
playing in it as a boy of ten. It is marked on the old ordnance 
plan as a ‘ cave.’ 
I am much indebted to the City Engineer at Hull for the 
accompanying plan and section, which he kindly made at my 
suggestion. 
3 O: 
The Zoological Society of London has issued a valuable handbook 
entitled ‘ Practical Advice on the Fly Question’ which is sold at the 
extremely low price of 1d. 
Old- Love Miscellany, Vol. VILL. » part 3, has been issued by the Viking 
Society, and includes an article on ‘ A Tour through Orkney in 1778,’ by 
the Rev. George Low. This includes some interesting botanical nGteS. 
We learn from The Brighton and Hove Graphic that a party of nat- 
uralists recently paid a pilgrimage to the grave of Richard Jefferies. It 
is reported that ‘the pilgrims numbered some twenty odd ladies and 
gentlemen.’ <A photograph of the party is given, but some of the ‘ odd’ 
ladies, at any rate, look quite charming ! 
From Mr. Joseph W. Gray we have received some valuable notes on 
“The Pleistocene Geology of the Area around Worcester,’ reprinted from 
the Proceedings of the Worcestershive Naturalists’ Club. It is interesting 
to notice how far afield Mr. Gray has gone in order to account for the 
glacial conditions in the Worcester district. 
The Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, Vol. XXVI., part 3, 
contain an interesting paper on ‘ The Structure of the Eastern Part of 
the Lake District,’ by J. F. N. Green. It is illustrated by some coloured 
sections. The same publication has a lengthy account of ‘ The Geology 
of the Glasgow District,’ by Prof. J. W. Gregory and others. 
The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, No. 281, contains the 
following papers of interest to our readers:—Dr. A. Vaughan on the 
Correlation of Dinantian and Avonian; Mr. C. T. Trechmann on the 
Scandinavian Drift of the Durham Coast and the General Claciology of 
South East Durham; Mr. C. Dawson and Dr. A. Smith Woodward ona 
Bone Implement from Piltdown, Sussex. 
1915 Dec. 1. 
