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of the Rev. J. MacEnery in Kent's Hole, near Torquay, 

 were rewarded by the unearthing of numerous similar 

 specimens, which were sold on that gentleman's death, 

 and chiefly reached the British Museum and the Museum 

 of the Geological Society.* The Caverns of Brixham 

 and Kent's Hole have been systematically explored by 

 Committees of the Royal Society and the British Associa- 

 tion, under the superintendence of Mr. W. Pengelly, F.R.S. ; 

 the principal specimens met with being presented to the 

 British Museum, while a representative series is preserved 

 in the Museum of the Natural History Society of Torquay. 

 The Caverns of the Mendip Hills were explored by the 

 Rev. D. Williams and Messrs. W. Beard, W. Ayshford 

 Sanford, F.G.S., and Professor Boyd Davvkins, F.R.S., 

 whose discoveries now enrich the Taunton Museum ; and 

 the well-known Cresswell Caves, near Worksop, Derby- 

 shire, have furnished to the Rev. J. M. Mello, F.G.S., Pro- 

 fessor Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S. , and Mr. T. Heath, the fine 

 series of remains at present in the Museum of the Owens 

 College, Manchester. The Victoria Cave, near Settle, was 

 investigated by a Committee of the British Association, 

 the resulting collection being now in the Museum of the 

 Giggleswick Grammar School. From a cave in Teesdale 

 Mr. James Backhouse, F.G.S., has made an important 

 collection, now in his private Museum at York;f and 

 the contents of the fissures of Windy Knoll, Derby- 

 shire, and Raygill, Yorkshire, are at present respectively 

 in the Museums of Manchester and Leeds. The latest 

 discoveries of Messrs. E. Bouverie Luxmoore, F.G.S., and 

 Dr. Henry Hicks, F.R.S., in the caves of the Vale of 

 Clwyd, near St. Asaph, have recently been presented to the 

 British Museum. All the principal collections of Verte- 



* J. MacEnery, Cavern Researches, with numerous plates, edited 

 by E. Vivian, 1859. 



t J. Backhouse and W. Davies, Geol. Mag. [2] vol. vii, 1880, 

 p. 346, pis. xi, xii. 



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