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Yarmouth, from the Dogger Bank;* and of Sir Antonio 

 Brady, from the Thames Valley,! are now in the British 

 Museum. The collection of Dr. Spurrell and Mr. Flaxman 

 C. J. Spurrell, F.G.S., made in the neighbourhood of 

 Crayford, is still in their possession at Belvedere, and 

 comprises several specimens described by Falconer, Daw- 

 kins, and Sanford. The fine series of remains obtained by 

 Mr. Henry Keeping from the river gravels of Barrington, 

 near Cambridge, is for the most part in the Woodwardian 

 Museum and in the British Museum ; Dr. Blackmore's 

 discoveries in the river gravels of Fisherton, near Salisbury, 

 are preserved in the Salisbury Museum ; and most of the 

 early isolated discoveries by private collectors, noticed in 

 Owen's British Fossil Mammals and Birds, have finally 

 reached the British Museum. The most extensive series 

 of Mammalian remains from the Turbary of Walthamstow, 

 Essex, is also in the British Museum, having been col- 

 lected by Mr. Joseph Wood.J 



The largest collections of Pleistocene Mammalia have 

 been obtained from caverns,^ in the exploration of which 

 Mr. Whidbey (or Whitby) and Dr. Buckland were the 

 pioneers in Britain. At the instigation of Sir Joseph 

 Banks, Mr. Whidbey explored the cave of Oreston, near 

 Plymouth, and obtained the remains described by SirEverard 

 Home and Mr. W. Gift in the Philosophical Transactions 

 for 1817 and 1823. The researches of the Oxford 

 professor in the cave of Kirkdale, Yorkshire,!! led to the 

 discovery of a large series of remains, now in the Museum 

 of the University ; and the somewhat later investigations 



* W. Davies, 'On a Collection of Pleistocene Mammals dredged 

 off the Eastern Coast,' Ceo/. Mag. [2] vol. v, 1878, p. 97. 



+ W. Davies, A Catalogue of the Pleistocene Vertebrata in the 

 Collection of Sir Antonio Brady, 1874. 



% H. Woodward, ' The Freshwater Deposits of the Lea Valley, 

 Geol. Mag., vol. vi, 1869, p. 385. 



§ W. Boyd Dawkins, Cave Hunting; 1874. 

 W. Buckland, Reliquice Diluviance, 1822. 



