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remains of any animal besides Bear met with in the Breccia. It was found 

 witli thi'ee bits of bone on the 2nd November, 1874, in the third foot-level ; and 

 vertically beneath it, in the next foot-level, were 1 tooth of Bear, a fragment 

 of bone, and a flint chip (No. 6483). Though the Superintendents had no 

 doubt of the feline character of the teeth, they forwarded one of them (that 

 least surrounded with Breccia) to Mr. George Busk, E.R.S. Ac, a member of 

 the Committee, on 30th November, 1874, remarking that they believed it to 

 be the last lower left molar of Fclis spdcca, and requesting his opinion on it. 

 In his reply, dated " 32 Harley Street, December 8, 1874," he remarks : — 

 " There is no doubt that the tooth is the left lower carnassial of Felts leo, 

 but it is of very unusual size, being, I should estimate, jK, bigger than the 

 average dimensions of that tooth in the Lion. It is usually longer, but not 

 so thick, in the Tiger than in the Lion ; but the thickness of the present one 

 is proportionate to its length, viz. 1-20 x '65 inch. Another peculiarity, as 

 it seems to me, is the great wear that the tooth has undergone. I fancy 

 existing Lions are not allowed to live long enough to wear their teeth so 

 much. At any rate, the Kent's Hole tooth appears to be more worn than 

 any other I have as yet met with. Can it belong to Machairodus ? 



(Signed) " Geokge Bxtsk." 



Having succeeded in removing some part of the matrix incrusting the 

 other portions of the jaw, they were also forwarded to Mr. Busk, with the 

 observation that the Superintendents had carefully considered the question 

 before submitting the iirst tooth, and had come to the conclusion that the 

 jaw was not that of Machairodus ; for, waiving the fact that none of the 

 teeth were serrated, the fang of the canine still remaining iii the jaw was 

 much too large for a lower canine of any known species of Machairodus ; and 

 it was siiggested that it might be worth considering whether the specimen 

 belonged to any of the species of Felis found in the Forest-bed of Cromer. 

 Mr. Busk says in his reply, dated August 11, 1875: — "The jaw does not 

 appear to present any thing unusual. It is, however, a good example to 

 show that the Cave-Li(m lived to a good old age. 



(Signed) " Geoege Busk." 



Clinnick's Gallery also vielded 7 specimens of flint and chert belonging to 

 the Breccia (Nos. 0466," 6467«, 6470, 6474, 6478, 6483, and 6485), of ^ 

 which the first and fourth alone require fui'ther notice. 



No. 6466 is an irregular tongue-shaped tool, of gamboge-colour exter- 

 nally, about 3 inches long, ] -7 inch in greatest breadth, and w inch in 

 greatest thickness. It has been reduced to an edge all round the circum- 

 ference except at the but -end, is slightlj^ concave on the inner face, on 

 which the " bulb of percussion " is well developed near the but-end, and very 

 convex on the outer face, whence several flakes and chips have been dis- 

 lodged. It was broken into three pieces by the workmen in extracting it, 

 and was found, without any other object of interest near it, on 8th August, 

 1874, in the third foot-level of Breccia, over which the two Stalagmitic . 

 Floors, Avithout any Cave-earth between them, had an aggregate thickness of 

 48 inches. 



No. 6474, a flint pebble, pretty well rolled, and 2-1 inches long, was 

 found aloue, in the second foot-level of Breccia, on 24th September, 1874. 



The comparative paucity of specimens in Clinnick's Gallery irduccd the 

 Superintendents, en 1st December, 1874, to suspend operations in that 

 direction for at least a time. The labour of seven months had been ex- 



