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grant from the Royal Society, together with Miss Burdett 

 Coutts' liberal donation, however carefully husbanded, will 

 not cover the very moderate scale of expenditure within 

 which the operations are at present conducted, beyond the 

 month of December. A further grant may with some confi- 

 dence be expected from the Royal Society next summer, but 

 we invite the earnest attention of the committee to devise 

 ways and means to meet the expense of the excavations 

 until then. 



(Signed) H. Falconer. 



A. C. Ramsay. 

 W. Pengelly. 



Sept. 9, 1858. 



III. NOTE BY EDITOR. 



[Dr. Falconer's Note-books contain a list of nearly 150 numbered 

 fossils from the Brixham Cave identified by himself, a copy of which 

 has since his death been handed to the committee. Most of these speci- 

 mens were teeth or fragments of bones of the species mentioned in the 

 above report ; but the list also included the remains of Lagonu/s, Cams 

 Vulpes, Putorius, Arvicola, Lepus, and the bones of birds. One specimen 

 was ' a superb last molar like that of Rhinoceros hemitceclius? and in 

 another it is noted that there was ' a detached Hyama incisor along with a 

 worked flint ! ' In reporting to Dr. Sharpey, the Secretary of the Royal 

 Society, the progress of the Brixham Cave excavations on June 7, 1860, 

 Dr. Falconer concluded as follows : ' The grant of the Royal Society has 

 already fructified richly, in the impulse which the Brixham Cave ex- 

 plorations have given to the whole question of the geological indications 

 of the antiquity of the human race, founded upon industrial objects occur- 

 ring in. old deposits, upon which communications are pouring forth 

 daily from various departments in France by observers of authority.'] 



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