222 MIDLAND UNION OF NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETIES. Oct., 1890. 
Charles Packe (Stretton Hall), Mr. Packe, jun., Alderman 
and Mrs. Kempson, Alderman and Mrs. Stevenson, Aider- 
man Barfoot and Mrs. Marlow (Southport), Alderman 
and Mrs. Hart, Mr. and Mrs. Fielding Johnson, Mr. 
A. H. Paget and Miss Paget, Mr. Egbert de Hamel 
(Middleton Hall, Tamworth), Mr. H. Stone, F.L.S., 
Mr. C. Pumphrey (Birmingham), Mr. and Mrs. Kineton 
Parkes, Miss Jermyn, Mr. J. Bunclier, Mr. W. Edmonds, 
Mr. J. Gardiner (Birmingham), Mr. J. Wilson (Malvern), 
Mr. G. Stubbs (Sutton Coldfield), Mr. Hugh Atkins 
(Hinckley), Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Cooper, Dr. and Mrs. 
Tomkins, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Billson, Mrs. Islip, Mr. 
and Mrs. R. Harvey, Mr. and Mrs. Harper, Mr. and 
Mrs. C. A. Spencer, Mr. and Mrs. W. Evans and Miss Evans, 
Mr. H. W. Plant and the Misses Plant, Mr. and Mrs. C. 
Robinson, Messrs. W. Simpson, G. Hull, A. Baines, W. A. 
Vice, Oldershaw, A. T. Draper, W. Aysom, A. Adderly, 
Clarke, Roper, T. Carter, Franklin Cooper, jun., F. W. 
Wartnaby, Mr. A. T. Y. Turner, and others. 
Two short but interesting addresses were given in the 
course of the evening, The first was by the Rev. E. Jones, 
the subject being “ Discovery of the Remains of Neolithic 
Man in the Elbolton Cave.” Mr. Jones said that the cave 
was in the West Riding of Yorkshire, about ten miles north 
of Skipton, near which placed he lived. In connection with 
their scientific association they had been exploring the cave, 
the entrance to which was about a hundred feet from the 
summit of a limestone hill. This entrance—the only one at 
present discovered—was steep and pit-like, and was about 
twenty feet long. The cave itself was not a very large one, 
the chamber measuring some forty feet in length and from 
six feet to seventeen feet in width. Very soon after com¬ 
mencing their explorations they came across human remains 
amongst a number of angular stones which had fallen from 
the roof. The systematic exploration of the cave commenced 
in August last year, and they were rewarded by finding among 
other bones three human skeletons, more or less complete, of 
men who had evidently been buried in the cave. He produced 
one of the skulls, which belonged assuredly to the long-headed 
type of the Neolithic man. The men of the Neolithic age 
had learned the art, which was unknown to those of the Palseo- 
lithicage, of making pots, and the skull he produced was pro¬ 
nounced to be a very fair specimen of the Neolithic man. They 
had not discovered in the cave any stone implements, but 
they had come across bone needles, which might have been 
used for the pinning together of the skin garments or for the 
