258 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE, ETC. 
The Committee has therefore now only to report the completion of a few 
remaining record cards by Miss M. Anderson, and the record of a few 
recent accessions to certain museums, and finds in private hands. 
On the conclusion of its task the Committee desires to express its apprecia- 
tion of the long and devoted labours of its secretary, Mr. H. J. E. Peake, 
to whose foresight and persistence the initiation and achievement of this 
permanent addition to archzological equipment were due. The close 
attention, the wide knowledge, and the tact, which such an enterprise 
entails can best be appreciated by those who have had some part in it, and 
will be long and widely recognised. 
KENT’S CAVERN, TORQUAY. 
Report of Committee appointed to co-operate with the Torquay Natural 
History Society in investigating Kent’s Cavern (Sir A. Keitu, F.R.S., 
Chairman ; Prof. J. L. Myrss, O.B.E., F.B.A., Secretary ; Mr. M.C. 
BurkITT, Dr. R. V. Favett, Miss D. A. E. Garrop, Mr. A. D. 
LACAILLE). 
TuE following report has been received from the excavators, for the season 
1933-34 : 
‘'The excavation of Kent’s Cavern was resumed on October 30, 1933, 
and continued weekly, in the “ vestibule,”’ up to May 28, 1934. 
‘This work has opened up an area of about 160 sq. ft. of floor space, 
nearly one-half of which is directly under the British Association’s site of 
the “‘ Black Band,” a hearth of Magdalenian times, worked by William 
Pengelly between 1865 and 1880. The greatest depth to which excavation 
has been carried this season is 10 ft. 6 in. below the general floor surface— 
i.e. about 16 ft. below the old stalagmitic floor. 
“Large fallen blocks of limestone have prevented rapid exploration, as 
blasting by explosives in the Cavern is objected to by the proprietors as 
causing annoyance and inconvenience to visitors, and the rocks have to be 
exposed and broken up by hand labour. Under and between these blocks 
of stone were found remains of large animals, many of them coated with a 
deposit of stalagmite and sometimes embedded in a very hard mixture of 
stalagmite and cave earth. 
‘The remains of animals usually found in the Cavern were present in 
good number, including those of horse, rhinoceros, deer, Irish deer, bear, 
fox, ox, badger, pine marten, and mammoth. 
‘ Some of the most interesting finds this season were : three foot bones of 
deer, all articulating ; three vertebre of a large animal (? rhinoceros) in 
their proper anatomical relations, found embedded in stalagmitic material ; 
a first phalanx of a human finger, found 2 ft. below the floor level ; eight 
flint implements ; a flint core, 3 in. by 2 in. by 2} in., found at a depth of 
13 ft. 6 in. below the original floor level ; small tines of deer, probably used 
as borers, and a quartzite pounder. 
“Our thanks are again due to the proprietors of the Cavern, Messrs. 
Powe and Son, for their continued assistance.’ 
(Signed) FREDERICK BEYNON, ARTHUR H. OGILVIE. 
The Committee asks to be reappointed, with a further grant to meet the 
expense of unskilled labour to remove sifted earth from the excavation. 
