140 REPORT — 1879. 



Note. — In the British Association Report for 1874, p. 196, the 

 Hitching stone (Yorkshire) is described as an erratic block. Mr. Dakyns 

 cannot think that this is correct, and writes the following note 

 upon it : 



' The stone is a block of millstone grit, standing on the escarpment of 

 a bed of grit not dissimilar in character. I believe this stone to be a 

 portion of this bed remaining in place, the immediately surrounding part 

 having been denuded. The stone is standing, as it might have stood 

 originally in its bed. It is angular, and bounded by joint surfaces just as 

 it would be on the removal of the surrounding block. 



' In brief, it has no single characteristic of a boulder about it. It is not 

 rounded nor scratched, nor is it standing on end, nor in any such a way as 

 to raise a suspicion of its having been moved. Nor is it of a different 

 character from the rock on which it stands, and there are no other 

 boulders connected with it ; nor are there anywhere in that country any 

 boulders that are not mere pigmies beside it ; nor do I know of any 

 boulders in the country saving such as are actually embedded in drift, and 

 none of these are lai'ge.' 



Fifteenth Report of the Committee, consisting of John Evans, 

 F.R.S., Sir John Lubbock, Bart, F.R.S., Edward Vivian, M.A., 

 George Busk, F.R.S., William Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S., William 

 Ayshford Sanford, F.G.S., John Edward Lee, F.G.S., and 

 William Pengelly, F.R.S. (Reporter), appointed for the pur- 

 pose of exploring Kent's Cavern, Devonshire. 



Your Committee, in this their Fifteenth Annual Report, on taking up 

 the narrative of their researches at the point at which it was dropped in 

 their Fourteenth Report, read during the meeting in Dublin in August, 

 1878 (see Report, British Association, 1878, pp. 124-129), beg to state 

 that, during the twelve months which have since elapsed, the work has 

 been continuously carried on in the same manner and under the same 

 daily superintendence as heretofore, and that the workmen named last 

 year — George Smerdon (foreman) and William Matthews — have con- 

 tinued to perform the manual labour throughout the year to the full 

 satisfaction of the Superintendents. 



Visitors. — The Superintendents have had the pleasure, as in previous 

 years, of admitting and conducting numerous ladies and gentlemen into 

 the Cavern, and have availed themselves of such opportunities of stating 

 and explaining the principal discoveries made from time to time, as well 

 as their palasontological and anthropological bearings. The following 

 may be mentioned as amongst the visitors thus admitted : — The Princes 

 Edward and George of Wales, with their tutor, the Rev. J. N. Dalton ; 

 the Revs. Canon Greenwell, Dr. Baron, P. Douglas, W. Downes, Dr. 

 S. Haughton, E. Mansfield, Dr. Punshon, and W. S. Symonds ; Captain 

 Thomson, Dr. T. Barlow, Prof. A. H. Church, and Messrs. J. R. Barlow, 

 A. Baron, W. H. Baron, J. S. Bartlett, C. Biggs, E. F. Boyd, F. C. Bury, 

 W. Bracken, R. A. Clark, T. E. Cobb, H. Cooper, W. Cotterell, R. E. 



