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ORDINARY MEETING!, February 3, 1879. 
Admiral E. G. Fisheourne, C.B., R.N., in the Chair. 
Tho minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed, and the 
following elections were announced : — 
Associates : — Rev. J. Cohen, M.A., Heston ; Rev. H. W. Webb Peploe, B. A., 
London. 
Also the presentation of the following Publications for 
“ Proceedings of the Royal Society.” 
“Proceedings of the Royal United Service Institution.” 
“ The Defence of Virginia.” By Professor Daubeny. 
“ Life of General (Stonewall) Jackson.” By the same. 
“ Church History.” Ditto. 
“ Theology.” Ditto. 
“ Sensualistic Philosophy of the XIX. Century.” Ditto. 
The following paper was then read by the Author : — 
THE CAVES OF SOUTH DEVON AND THEIR 
TEACHINGS. By John Eliot Howard, P.R.S. 
PART I. 
T HE pleasant shores of South Devon may almost be said to 
have given rise to a new line of scientific research — that of 
“ the Antiquity of Man,” specially “ in the West of England.” 
As the Cambrian and Silurian regions furnished our great 
geologists not only with materials for investigation but 
with appropriate designations under which to classify the 
strata of earth’s surface, so the discoveries at Brixham led to 
the belief “ that the advent of Man in Devonshire was not 
only pi’ior to the extinction of the cave-mammals, but occurred 
at a time so remote* that the valleys of the district were 
the Library : — ■ 
From the same. 
Ditto. 
Ditto. 
Ditto. 
Ditto. 
Ditto. 
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* The Ancient Cave Men of Devonshire, p. 6. 
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