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Dr. falconer, f.E.S, was the 
Mr.Prestwich, F.R.S.,the Treasurer, them, 
" deputed by the London Committee to P . ^ however? 
and superintend the actual working o ndeb ted for the active 
to Mr. Pengelly that the Committee a record 
and constant superintendence of the “d lor ^ per _ 
of each day’s proceedings. Th^s gentler ^ noted all the 
sonally to the execution o +nVmlated all the specimens 
physical features, and arrange an . atiorf an amount of 
found in the cave, ^voting to the nvestigatmn an for 
care and time without which it which 
the London e gocietv ”* The work proceeded with 
is now submitted to the boc . , • tvfe \ xe months, and 
M°r h 
the whole.”t It was not > however ’ unt q to’ the Roval 
the report of the fleeter' part^o^mS that the exhumed 
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sswisfetis 1™ »• “•» 
the expense of the exploration. cavern were not 
Thus for fifteen years the re 1 - iod these rubble 
accessible to outsiders and during that lo g 1 described a s flint 
pieces of shattered flint were P® 1 ^ The haste with 
knives, relics of man, and by which it 
which this opinion had been adopted, a tl ^ ^ * long delay 
was propagated, presents a remarkabl 
in the issue of the final r ep ort - nreliminarv report was 
On the 9th of September, I808, »P« pVlconer M.D., 
sent to the London Committee, signe ^ 7 thgy state that 
Andrew Ramsay, and Wm. Pengc y , been brought out, 
“ one result of great interest h remains of the reindeer 
namely, the superposition of undoubte whicb the inference 
above the so-called flint knives , inhabitant of Britain 
arises that the reindeer continued to be an inhabitant 
after the appearance of man in this island. If 
* Transactions of Royal Society, voh ehk P- 
+ Transactions of Devon £ssomti<m, vo Lv 
+ Transactions of Royal Society, ■ P 
