378 Exploration of Kent's Cavern, Devonshire. 
having a label containing the data necessary for defining the 
situation of its contents, are daily sent to the Honorary Secretary 
of the committee, by whom the specimens are at once cleaned 
and packed in fresh boxes. The labels are numbered and pack- 
ed with the specimens to which they respectively belong, and a 
record of the day’s work is entered in a diary. 
The same method is followed in the examination of the black 
mould, and also of the stalagmitic breccia, with the single ex- 
ception that in these cases the parallels are not divided into 
levels and yards. 
With very rare exceptions the cavern has been visited daily 
by one, and frequently by both of the superintendents; an 
monthly reports of progress have been regularly forwarded to 
Sir Charles Lyell, the chairman of the committee. 
hough it would be premature to attempt anything like an 
exhaustive list, it may be of interest to furnish a brief and gen- 
eral account of the objects which have been found. 
Of the articles met with in the black mould, those occurring 
between the fallen masses of limestone have been kept distinct 
from such as have been detected beneath them. Such a division, 
however, is not rendered necessary by the characters of the ob- 
jects themselves, and will not be attended to on the present oc- 
casion. In this category also may be placed the greater number 
of the specimens found in the talus outside the cavern. The 
collection is of a various miscellaneous nature. It consists of 
stones of various kinds, human industrial remains, charred 
wood, bones of various animals, marine and land shells, and the 
broken shells of hazel-nuts. It passes from the rabbit's nest 
lined with clean dry fur and containing a couple of fresh green 
though there is no flint zx sitw within five miles, it is a well- 
known fact that such pebbles are met with on existing beaches 
at much greater distances from any known accumulation of flints 
in place. The rounded stones are extremely numerous in the 
black rhe ~~ undoubtedly selected and taken to the 
cavern; but for what purpose it may not be easy to determine. 
There are also several pieces of bard greenish-grey grit of an 
