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which the first or outermost extends in a northerly direction ab out 30 feet 

 The Gallery then turns at right angles and extends westward about 25 

 feet, where it again, though with some irregularity, takes a northerly 

 direction for 30 feet. 



About 16 feet up the third or innermost Reach the explorer, by crawl- 

 ing up a steep sheet of stalagmite, formed on limestone rocks in situ on 

 the western side, and, having reached the top, by wriggling vermicularly 

 through a very small aperture, finds himself in a chamber from 10 to 12 

 feet long and broad, but not quite so high, where he soon comes to the 

 conclusion that there is little or no chance of finding anything of interest 

 to the palaeontologist or the anthropologist. The walls and roof, how- 

 ever, are hung with a profusion of beautifully white stalactites, many of 

 them in the form of long, thin, quill-like tubes, whilst others of larger 

 volume assume various forms, but all of great beauty. From the floor 

 there rises a forest of stalagmitic ' paps,' some of them nearly 2 feet high 

 and 10 or 12 inches in circumference, and all promising, were time 

 allowed, to become pillars reaching the roof. By letting himself down 

 over a rocky ledge, about 4 feet high, at the inner or northern end of this 

 chamber, the explorer enters a second chamber, about 25 feet long from 

 south to north nearly, and 12 feet wide ; where, though stalactites and 

 stalagmites are almost as plentiful and as beautiful as in the ante-room 

 he has just left, his attention is rather rivetted on the walls, and especi- 

 ally the roof, which are rugged, and angular, and shivered. That blocks 

 of limestone have in great plenty fallen from them, and in times geologi- 

 cally recent, there cannot be a doubt, and their aspect is anything but 

 calculated to inspire confidence in their present stability. Nevertheless, 

 judging from the stalactites depending from the roof and the ' paps ' 

 rising from the floor, there can have been no very recent fall. The floor, 

 telling much the same story as the roof and walls, is made up of masses 

 of limestone, generally of no great size, with numerous pitfalls between 

 them. 



On its eastern side, the third or innermost Reach of Clinnick's Gallery 

 opens into a large chamber, which the workmen have just begun to 

 explore. 



Palceontographical Society. — In 1878 your Committee had the pleasure 

 of receiving from Professor A. Leith Adams, F.R.S., an application for 

 permission to have drawings taken of any relics of mammoth they had 

 found in the Cavern, for the purpose of illustrating the monograph on 

 the ' British Fossil Elephants ' which he is preparing for the Pateon to- 

 graphical Society of Great Britain. It must be unnecessary to add that 

 the permission was at once granted, and that such specimens as he wished 

 were forwarded to him without delay. 



Professor Leith Adams has accordingly, in Part II. of his monograph 

 (1879), directed attention (pp. 84, 85, 86, 91, 92, 94) to fifteen milk- 

 molars found by the Committee in the deposit known as the Cave-earth, 

 and has given natural-size figures of three of them (Nos. 1,063, 5,489, 

 5,774 ; see pi. ix., figs. 3 and 4, and pi. xii., fig. 2). 



The principal facts connected with these specimens are set forth iu 

 the following Table : 



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