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On measuring the cave we found that the maximum height of the 

 entrance was 8 feet and the width 36 feet ; in the interior the maxi- 

 mum height was 9 feet. 



In conclusion, I will only add that, after carefully weighing the 

 facts of the case, on the site of our excavation, I cannot but infer, 

 from the evidence afforded by this cave alone, that Man was a con- 

 temporary of the gigantic TJrsus spelceus, the Hyaena, the Mammoth, 

 and their congeners ; and I feel convinced that the cave was filled 

 with its present contents, not by a violent cataclysm, but by the ordi- 

 nary operations of nature now, as then, in progress ; with this differ- 

 ence only, that the remains of Foxes and Badgers are now being 

 entombed in the caverns still open in the district, instead of the extinct 

 preglacial fauna. 



List of Mammalian Remains. 

 Ht^nidjE. Hymna spelma, 4 jaws, 49 teetb, left ilium, 2 metacarpals, portion of 



right rib, and right maxillary. 

 Oanh)^. Canis vulpes, 4 humeri, 3 ulnae, 5 tibiae, left radius. 



Canis Lupus, right maxillae with P. M. 4 and incisors 2, right humerus. 

 Ubsid^. Ursus spelceus, 3 molars, 2 canines, left humerus. 

 SoLiDUNGULA. Equus, 03 calcis, 4 astragali, metacarpal, metatarsal, distal end 



of tibia, upwards of '70 molars, 7 incisors, one canine. 

 MuLTCNGULA. Rhinoceros ticliorhinus, 3 proximal ends of ulnae, astragalus, 



phalanges, 29 molars. 

 BovidjB. Bos primigenius, 2 ossa calcis (right), astragalus, phalanx, portion of 



shaft of femur, scapho-cuboid, 2 molars. 

 Cbrvid^. Teeth, antlers, and various fragments. 



Megaceros Htbernicus, 1 molars, fragment of jaw containing M. 1, 2, 3. 

 Cervus Bucklandi, 2 antlers (skull ?). 

 C. Guettardi, 2 antlers. 

 a Tarandus (?), (skull?), (antler?). 

 C Bama (?), fragments of antlers. 

 PaoBOSCiDiA. Elephas primigenius, 2 second molars, portion of tusk, innumer- 

 able splinters. 



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THE SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION. 



[We find the following reports in a London weekly newspaper, and avail our- 

 selves of them in the absence of more complete information on a subject of 

 great and general interest.] 



The Houses of Parliament were turned to a new use on Saturday evening, 

 June, tth, the Social Science Association having converted them to the purposes 



