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PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. [Feb. 4, 



6. The Physical Features of the Cave. — The ground-plan* and 

 sections exhibit the more important features of the cave, namely, 

 the horizontal antrum traversed by a fissure filled with calc-spar, 

 side by side with the " step " of conglomerate ; the oblique and but 

 partially filled passage C, similar in these respects also to A ; the 

 vertical and completely filled passages E and F, totally devoid of 

 organic remains and full of grey clay ; the places where the contents 

 have not been disturbed, and many other phenomena which brevity 

 compels me to pass over. 



§ III. Organic Remains. 



A. General Eeview. 



1. Table showing the Distribution of the Bones in the Cave. 



Antrum. 



Carnivora. 



Hyama speLca 



Felis 



Ursus 



Meles taxus 



Canis lupus 



C. vulpes 



Proboscidea. 

 Elephas primigenius 



Perissodactyla. 

 Rhinoceros tichorhinus 

 Equus 



Artiodactyla. 



Bost 



Cervus tarandus \ .... 



C. elaphus § 



Cervusf, sp 



Total 



32 

 6 



12 



73 



Passage B. 



Passage C. 



Passage D. 



Total. 



4 



1 



5 



14 



2 





3 



G 



1 



... 



... 



1 

 1 



... 



... 



4 



6 

 3 



2 



1 



3 



10 



144 



22 



38 



236 



33 



3 



3 



45 



27 



10 



17 



66 



20 



"4 



9 



41 



233 



41 



82 



429 



1 



* For many of the measurements in the ground-plan I am indebted to my 

 partner in the work, Mr. James Parker. 



t The absolute accuracy of these numbers is not to be depended upon, on 

 account of the great difficulty in discriminating between the carpals and tarsals 

 of the larger Deer and those of the smaller Oxen. 



% The skull of a Reindeer bearing an antler of Cervus Guettardi, in the Taunton 

 Museum, proves that the latter is a variety of the former. Cervus BucMandi, 

 Owen, a species based upon a small fragment of antler, and characterized by the 

 brow-antler being " 3^ inches from the lower extremity or base " of the beam 

 [Owen, Foss. Mamm. fig. 200, p. 485], is by no means satisfactorily separated 

 from C. tarandus, in which the brow-antler varies greatly even in the same indi- 

 vidual (see Coll. Surgeons' Hunt. Cat. 3512). C. Guettardi is probably founded 

 on a young, and C. Bucklandi on an old antler of the Reindeer. 



§ There is no evidence that Strong yhceros spelesus is a distinct species from 

 Cervus elaphus. 



