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by no means ready for the press, but in 1859 Mr. E. Vivian, 

 of Torquay, published a compilation from it ; and through 

 the liberality of Mr. F. Buckland, whose property the stones 

 had become, he was allowed to have some proof impressions 

 taken for its illustration. The plates are distinguished with 

 letters of the alphabet, from B to T inclusive, J and O being 

 missing. The first sixteen contain figures of the remains of 

 animals, and the seventeenth of flint implements. They all 

 state that the specimens represented on them were found in 

 " Kent's Hole, Torquay; " fourteen of them that they were 

 "lithographed from nature by G. Scharf ; " one, F, that it 

 was delineated by " Mary Buckland," and lithographed by 

 " G. Scharf;" the remaining two, H and I, are silent on 

 this point ; twelve give the information that the specimens 

 were found by Rev. J. McEnery; one, C, by Rev. L. P. 

 Welland, whilst the remaining four give no information on 

 the subject. 



Plate F contains seven figures representing, in the natural 

 size, different aspects of at least three distinct: canines, and 

 has the following label : — " Mary Buckland del., G. Scharf, 

 lithog., Nat. size. Teeth of Ursus cultridens. Found in 

 the Cave of Kent's Hole, near Torquay, Devon, by Revd. 

 Mr. McEnery, January, 1826, in diluvial mud, mix'd with 

 teeth and gnaw'd bones of rhinoceros, elephant, horse, ox, 

 elk, and deer, with teeth and bones of hyaenas, bears, wolves, 

 foxes, &c." It is the only plate in the series which was 

 drawn by " Mary Buckland," or bears the date on which 

 the specimens were found, or names the animals with whose 

 remains they were mixed. In short, there was a full recog- 

 nition of the fact that the discovery was regarded as one of 

 importance. It may be, too, that scepticism respecting it 

 was foreseen and provided for, so far as was possible. 



The plate, as we have seen, states that the teeth were 

 found in January, 1826, and this harmonises with the facts, 

 that according to the records of the Geological Society 

 of London, one of them was presented to that body by 

 Mrs. Cazalet, February 17th, 1826, and that Sir W. C. 

 Trevelyan, as he has been so good as to inform us, was at 

 Torquay in 1826, about the end of February and beginning 

 of March ; that on the last day of the former he spent some 

 hours excavating in the cavern, and that one of the teeth of 

 Machairodus was given to him by Mrs. Cazalet (he thinks), 

 and not by Mr. MacEnery. 



In his manuscript, the whole of which was published in 

 1869, exactly as he left it,* Mr. MacEnery mentioned the 



* See Trans. Devon Assoc, iii., p. 191-482, 



