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longing to tbe historic and prehistoric ages, including a Romano- 
Britisk enamelled bronze broock, of tke sarne pattern as one found 
in tke Victoria Cave ; fraginents of pottery, human bones and teeth, 
and bones of botk wild and domestie animals. 
Tke distribution of tke remains found in tke Ckurck Hole Cave 
agreed generally witk tkat above described ; traces of human occu- 
pation and remains of tke Hyiena occurred botk in tke cave-earth 
and in tke red sand and clay. The bones found indicated the 
following animals : — Lion, Polecat, Hyaena, Fox, Wolf, Bear, Rein- 
deer, Irish Elk, Bison, Horse, Woolly Rhinoceros, Mammoth, and 
Hare — all common to botk the cave-deposits, except tke Lion, wkick 
was found only in tke cave-earth, and the Polecat, of wkick a single 
jaw occurred in tke red sand. Tke latter contained a larger propor- 
tion of tke remains tkan in the Robin Hood Cave, but, as in tke 
latter, tke quartzite implements were more abundant in tke lower 
strata of tke deposits. Among tke articles of human workm anship 
was a perfect and well-skaped bone needle. Tke superficial soil 
of tke Ckurck Hole Cave also contained articles of the historic and 
prehistoric age, including a bronze fibula, fragmen ts of pottery 
(one mediaeval), and bones of man and animals. From the pre- 
sence of these objects in tke surface-soil tke author inferred tkat 
the caves of Creswell Crags, like those of Yorkshire and else- 
wkere, were used as places of refuge by tke Brit-welsk during tke 
conquest of tbe country by the Englisk. 
After noticing the conditions of tke fossil bones found in the 
caves, tke author proceeded to remark upon tke general results of 
the explorations witk regard to tkeir Pleistocene fauna, and con- 
cluded tkat tkere is no evidence from these or other caves in this 
country to prove that tkeir faunas are eitlier pre- or interglacial, 
and tkat we have no proof of tke existence of pre- or interglacial 
man in Britain. 
COEEESPOUDEITCE. 
THE MAGNESIAN LIMESTONE AND NEW RED SANDSTONE IN 
THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF NOTTINGHAM. 
Sir, — Assuming tkat I am one of tke “ local geologists ” referred 
to by Mr. Aveline in his notice on the above subject, publislied in 
the April Number of the Geological Magazine, I must, speaking 
for myself alone, take exception (1) to bis definition of my position, 
and (2) to tke necessity for the inference that ke draws from facts 
in themselves not open to question. In a paper on tke Permians of 
this district, Q. J. G. S. Nov. 1876, I briefly referred to a series of 
sandstones, marls, and breccia, that I had long since noticed in tke 
neigkbourkood of Nottingham to intervene between tke typical 
Lower Bunter (/') and tke Middle Permian marls (e 3 ). On 
account of tkeir combining tke textural characters of botk these 
sub-formations, it became extremely difficult to relegate tkem to one 
or tke other ; and some geologists were inclined to dass them as 
passage-beds. In tke above paper and accompanying section it was 
