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EEPOET ON THE EXPECTATION OF BEIXHAM CAVE. 
accordance with Mr. Pengelly’s observations and sections, which give many special features 
that could only have been noted, as they were by him, during the progress of the work. 
The Report drawn up for the Committee by Mr. Pengelly consists of three parts : — 
1st, “ Topographical and Historical details,” the essential points of which are embraced 
in the next chapter ; 2nd, “ Results of the Exploration,” which contains a valuable and 
minute account of the contents of the cave and of the finding and distribution of the 
organic remains, — this is given in full in § III.'* ; 3rd, “ Of Inferences from the facts 
discovered,” — although these have not been adopted by the Committee, the essential 
theoretical viewsf of Mr. Pengelly on the origin of the cave and its contents are given 
and discussed with others in the “ General Conclusions ” (§ VIII.). In addition to this, 
Mr. Pengelly handed in a “Daily Register containing an account of each day’s dis- 
coveries or “finds.” 
Mr. Bristow’s survey was also accompanied with some remarks on the structure and 
origin of the cave. Much of this is superseded by Mr. Pengelly’s more continued and 
complete record ; but those of Mr. Bristow’s remarks and opinions are introduced 
which serve either to amplify or more fully explain some point, or where the conclu- 
sions to which they lead are different. His descriptive notes are given in § IV. 
The Flint Implements have been made the subject of some interesting observations 
by Mr. John Evans, and the more important specimens are figured (§ VII.). 
As it was at the instigation of the late Dr. Falconer that this investigation, in which 
he took a deep interest, was undertaken, the Committee had looked forward, but for his 
untimely and lamented death, to a report on the animal remains from his pen. From the 
same hand also they had hoped to receive the General Report. With respect to the 
accomplishment of the first object, Mr. George Busk kindly took charge of his friend’s 
notes on the subject, and has furnished the Committee with a valuable Report on the 
bone remains found in the cave, together with some important observations on the 
species of fossil Bears (§ VI.). 
The Treasurer was deputed by the Committee to describe the lithological specimens 
and to draw up the General Report. By the terms of the grant the object of this 
inquiry was the “ Exploration of the Brixham Cave.” By this your reporter understands 
such a complete description of the cave and of its organic remains, and such a discussion 
of its origin, as may serve as a basis for further study and for more extended generali- 
zation. Referring, therefore, for information on the first of these essential points to the 
communications of Mr. Pengelly and Mr. Busk, he has limited his general observations 
to conclusions incidental to this special case, deeming it better to abstain from any more 
general considerations foreign to the immediate object of the inquiry (§ VIII.). 
* 'With a very few alterations to avoid repetitions and to obtain uniformity of references, and by the intro- 
duction into Table I. of the dates taken from the Daily Eegister. 
t These, we have reason to hope, will form the subject of a separate memoir elsewhere by Mr. Pengelly. 
+ Compiled from the notes kept by him and by Mr. Keeping, who was also always on the spot. The “ finds” 
of each day are tabulated iu Mr. Pengelly’s Tables and Mr. Busk’s Keport, Parts 1 A 2. 
