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relation of the older cave mammals (and perhaps of man) to 
the Glacial period. The complete absence of this fauna from 
the river gravels and other Post-Glacial deposits of this 
district, taken with the former existence of a great develop- 
ment of ice over the northern counties, renders it highly 
probable that the latter was the agent which removed their 
remains from all parts of the country to which it had access, 
leaving them only in sheltered caves. 
“ In this cave we find, above the beds containing the older 
fauna, a deposit of laminated clay of great thickness, differ- 
ing so much from the cave-earth above and below it as to 
point to distinct physical conditions for its origin. Clay in 
all respects similar, but containing scratched stones, has 
been found intercalated with true glacial beds in the neigh- 
bourhood, thus rendering the glacial origin of that in 
the cave also highly probable. 
“ Moreover, at the back of a great thickness of talus at 
the entrance glaciated boulders have been found, resting on 
the edges of the beds of lower cave-earth containing the 
older mammals. All points considered, there is strong 
cumulative evidence pointing to the formation of the lower 
cave-earth at times at any rate prior to the close of the 
Glacial period and probably earlier. It is to be hoped that 
further investigations . may settle these and other most 
important questions.” 
The objects found in the Victoria Cave will not be 
removed from the county, but will be placed in a museum 
attached to the Grammar School at Giggleswick. 
Mr. Brockbank, F.G.S., differed from Mr. Dawkins as to 
the mode in which the “ talus” before the Victoria cave, and 
the earth with which it is filled, were deposited, and conse- 
quently as to the basis upon which his estimates of time 
were based. He believed this cavern had been filled by the 
agency of running water, which flowed through it in rainy 
seasons, as is the case in the numerous other similar caves, such 
