REPORT 



ON THE 



EXPLORATION OF THE CAVES OF BORNEO* 



BY 



A. Haut Everett ; 

 INTEODUCTOBY EEMAEKS 



BY 



John Evans, d.c.l., ll.d. ; 



AND 



NOTES ON BONES COLLECTED 



BY 



G. Busk, v.p.e.s. 



In the year 1878 the Council o£ the Koyal Society made a 

 grant of £50, from the Donation Fund, towards the expenses of 

 carrying on an investigation of the Caves of Borneo, which it was 

 thought possible might prove to contain remains both of paheonto- 

 logical and anthropological into rest. A similar grant was mado by 

 the British Association, and a Committee appointed; and by the 

 aid of private subscriptions a sufficient sum was raised to secure 

 the services of Mr. Hart Everett, whose report upon his investiga- 

 tions, extending over a period of nearly nine months, is now enclosed. 



A preliminary report from the Committee, together with one 

 of Mr. Everett's reports, ha 3 already been submitted to the British 

 Association at its meeting in Sheffield, and has appeared in print. 

 It was then pointed out that although the examination of these 

 caves had not, as was hoped, thrown any light upon the early 

 history of man in that part of the world, jet that the evidence 

 obtained, though negative in character, was not without value, 

 inasmuch as the true nature of the Borneo cave deposits had now 

 been carefully ascertained by Mr. Everett. His final report con- 



* Re-prmta I by permission of Mr. John Evans, f.r.s., President of the 

 Borneo Caves Exploration Committee. 



