734 PROF. B. DAWKINS AND REV. J. M. MELLO ON 
ages falls more properly within the limits of anthropology than geology, 
and presents no points of geological interest worthy of being brought 
before this Society. 
Discusston.* 
The Cuarrman (Prof. Prestwich) observed that both communica- 
tions were of great interest. He believed that this was the first 
instance of a high-level gravel being described in the neighbour- 
hood to which Mr. Fisher’s paper referred. He inquired what was 
the height of the hill on which the Boulder-clay occurred. The 
circumstances much resembled those in the Thames valley or near 
Oxford. In the Somme valley the Hippopotamus occurred only in 
the low-level gravel; here just the reverse. As regarded Prof. 
Boyd Dawkins’s paper, he remarked that the succession also was of 
great interest; the absence of man from a particular cave, however, 
would not necessarily prove his absence for the period. 
Prof. Hucuxs stated that the hills bounding the valley referred 
to by Mr. Fisher formed part of the Chalk-range, which was 200-300 
feet high. 
Mr. Joan Evans said that at Barrington there was another satis- 
factory instance of the Pleistocene Mammalia in beds more recent than 
the Chalky Boulder-clay, and in a condition showing they could not be 
remamé. He doubted whether the worked flint belonged to the age 
of the beds. The round stones, he thought, afforded no satisfactory 
evidence of human use. ‘The materials of the gravel were evidently 
derived from the glacial drift. At Barnwell a flint implement of 
the St.-Acheul type had been found. 
Mr. R. H. Tipprman congratulated the authors upon the impor- 
tance of their discoveries, the succession of the two distinct faunas 
in the Cave tending to strengthen the views formerly held by Dr. 
Falconer as to their relative age. The older was almost identical 
with the Hyzena-bed in the Victoria Cave. He felt bound to 
challenge the remark of Prof. Dawkins, “ that the existence of Man 
with Hippopotamus in the Victoria Cave was founded on a mistake.” 
He wished to state that the cut bones of Goat were found in the 
older beds in that Cave, under such circumstances that it was im- 
possible that they could have fallen from the surface, as suggested ; 
for, by the method of careful working adopted, the upper beds had 
been previously completely removed. Nor was he (Mr. Tiddeman) 
singular in believing the Goat to have existed in Pleistocene times. 
Prof. Srrtey said that no river could have occupied the region 
described by Mr. Fisher, since a slight depression would convert 
the existing rivulets into estuaries. He thought the gravels were 
deposited in salt water, and the freshwater shells and bones of 
land animals had been introduced by small streams. Two or three 
specimens of Hyzena, in excellent preservation, were found some 
years since in Quy Fen. He had described, in the Society’s Journal, 
a rib-bone cut by man, found in the Barnwell gravel, which was 
* This Discussion relates also to a paper by the Rey. O. Fisher, p. 670. 
