588 J. MAGENS MELLO ON THE BONE-CAVES OF CRESWELL CRAGS. 



Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins ; so that they need not be dwelt upon at 

 any greater length here. 



It will be seen that the exploration of the three principal caves of 

 Creswell Crags has made it manifest : — that during the Pleistocene 

 period Derbyshire and the adjoining counties were inhabited by a 

 very numerous and diversified fauna ; that in the vast forests and 

 pastures which we may picture to ourselves as extending in one 

 unbroken line far to the east and south of the present shores of 

 England, the Mammoth and the Woolly Rhinoceros, the Hippo- 

 potamus (which has been found in Yorkshire), the great Irish Elk, 

 the Reindeer, the Bison, and the Horse found a congenial home ; 

 that here also the savage Hyaena, the crafty Glutton, the Bear, the 

 Lion, the Wolf, and the Fox, together with the great sabre-toothed 

 Feline, sought their prey ; and that, with these and others not 

 named, man lived and hunted, and waged a more or less precarious 

 struggle for existence, finding a shelter, amidst the vicissitudes of a 

 varying climate, in the numerous caves of the district, already the 

 haunts of the Hyaena and its companions. 



(For the Discussion on this paper, see p. 611.) 



