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remains with the intention of publishing a descriptive 

 account of his CAVERN RESEARCHES. The manuscript, 

 which was in the possession of Mr. E. Vivian, who pub- 

 lished portions of it, has wisely been printed entire by 

 Mr. Pengelly with all its imperfections. When it was 

 begun no one knows, but ' some portions of it are cer- 

 tainly not older than the year 1836 . . . and no portion 

 can be assigned to a later date than 1840, as the 

 author's decease took place on February 18, 1841.' 



To analyse the whole of Mr. McEnery's mutilated 

 fasciculus is needless in a work like this, and it is 

 enough to state that under the upper and lower stalag- 

 mites he recognised the bones and teeth of the Mam- 

 moth (E. primigenius), Rhinoceros, Horse, Ox, (bison ?) 

 Irish Elk (Cervus megaceros), Eed Deer, Stag, Fallow 

 Deer, Reindeer, Bears ( Ursus cultridens, U. Spelceus, 

 U. Arctoideus, U. Priscus\ Hysena, Wolf, and doubt- 

 less others unnamed. 1 He specially recognised that 

 the bones had been gnawed, and also insists on the fact 

 that flint implements occur in intimate association with 

 the bones. In 1840 Mr. Godwin- Austen makes the re- 

 mark that ' arrow-heads and knives of flint occur in all 

 parts of the cave and throughout the entire thickness 

 of the clay, and no distinction, founded on condition, 

 distribution, or relative position, can be observed whereby 

 the human can be separated from the other reliquiaB ; ' 2 

 and further on he adds, ' there is no ground why we 

 should separate man from that period and those acci- 

 dents when and by which the cave was filled.' The 

 breadth of these remarks (unacceptable at the time), by 

 an experienced observer, who has on this and other sub- 



1 I print these from the imperfect Fasciculus G as they stand, 

 with the exception of the Wolf, mentioned elsewhere. 



2 ' Trans. Geol. Soc.,' London, second series, vol. vi.. t. 2, p. 444. 



