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Notes and Queries on Anthropology. — Report of Committee (Dr. 

 A. C. Haddon, Chairman ; Mr. E. N. Fallaize, Secretary ; Mrs. 

 Robert Aitken, Mr. H. Balfour, Capt. T. A. Joyce, Prof. J. L. 

 Myres, Mrs. Seligman, Prof. C. G. Seligman). 



The four previous editions of Notes and Queries on Anthropology were published 

 respectively in 1874, 1892, 1899, and 1912. The present Fifth Edition, 1929, follows 

 the general lines of the last edition, but a re-arrangement was deemed necessary and 

 little of the old wording has been retained ; owing to recent investigations, the 

 section dealing with Social Anthropology, of which Magic and Religion now form an 

 integral part, had to be entirely re-written. The General Committee appointed at 

 the Oxford Meeting of the British Association, 1926, to compile this edition delegated 

 the writing of various sections to five Sub-Committees and in addition to the members 

 of these a number of specialists in different departments of Anthropology have aided 

 the Committee by their advice and criticism and in writing on certain subjects. The 

 names of all these have been acknowledged in the book and we would like to take 

 this opportunity to thank them for their willingness to help and for their valued 

 co-operation. It was found in 1928 that it was necessary to engage an Assistant 

 Editor and we were fortunate in obtaining the services of Mr. L. J. P. Gaskin, then 

 Librarian to the Royal Anthropological Institute, who did his work with zeal and 

 entirely to the satisfaction of the Committee. The book is published by the Royal 

 Anthropological Institute at the price of 6s. 



Kent's Cavern. — Report of Committee appointed to co-operate ivith the 

 Torquay Natural History Society in investigating .Kent's Cavern (Sir 

 A. Keith, Chairman ; Prof. J. L. Myres, Secretary ; Mr. M. C. 

 BuRKiTT, Dr. R. V. Favell, Mr. G. A. Garfitt, Miss D. A. E. Garrod, 

 Prof. W. J. Sollas). 



The Committee has received from the excavators the following report : — 



Excavations have been continued in the ' Wolf's Cave,' and along the foot of the 

 'Sloping Chamber,' from October 1929 to the end of May 1930. The heavy rains 

 of January caused considerable interference in the work. Last year's trench was 

 extended to 60 feet in length, and deepened to 7 feet below the upper or ' granular 

 stalagmite ' floor, except at a point near the entrance to the ' Wolf's Cave,' where 

 bedrock was reached. 



Previous explorers had dumped their tip all along the trench, and it is doubtful if 

 some of the finds were in their original position. These include a quartzite pebble of 

 the Budleigh Salterton Pebble Bed type, four inches long, which had apparently been 

 used as a hammer-stone ; three flints of no very definite character, but showing signs 

 of utilisation ; and an interesting bone implement, shaped to a much-worn and 

 polished point, suggesting its use as an awl or borer. All of these tools were found 

 in the ' Sloping Chamber.' 



The fauna continues to be entirely of the usual Late Pleistocene type, with Horse 

 still predominating over Hyena, followed, at some distance, and in numerical order, 

 by Rhinoceros, Stag, Mammoth, C. Megaceros, Bear, Bos, and Wolf. A few remains 

 of microtine fauna have not yet been under expert examination. 



The deposit, although not easily distinguishable from the cave-earth elsewhere 

 found immediately below the ' granular stalagmite ' floor, contained a considerable 

 number of rolled and sub-angular pieces of grit from the Lincombe Hill ; a test 

 sample, upon washing, revealing a residue consisting as to two-thirds of this rock as 

 against only one-third from the limestone. Occasional small pieces of concreted 

 grit, and of a crystalline stalagmite, presented themselves, but neither the corres- 

 ponding earthy deposit, called by Pengelly the ' breccia,' nor its covering floor of 

 ' crystalline [stalagmite,' has presented itself in situ. Nevertheless, the com- 

 position of the deposit points to a mixture of material of different ages, and the 

 absence of the ' middle ' or ' crystalline stalagmite ' floor renders such a mixture by 

 no means surprising. 



