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smallest importance to the argument. The bones of bos longifrons 
occurred in the loose upper deposit, which may have been part 
of the spoil, but neither in the cave-earth nor the breccia; and 
their purpose seemed to have been served when they had called 
attention to the possibility of further discoveries. They cannot 
be excluded from the list of the cavern fauna, but their relative 
scientific importance here is of the slightest. The rabbit and 
dog are associated with the cave-earth ; but it is in connection with 
that part of the lower northern chamber which remained unfilled, 
and which, as I have said, might have been accessible to the 
bodies of small mammals long after it was closed to the larger. 
Besides, it is only recently that the wild rabbit has ceased to live 
at Cattedown ; and we all know the capacity of that animal for 
finding its way into obscure recesses. Mr. Hill has told me that 
it used to be a favourite amusement of himself and his brothers, 
to put their tame rabbits into the crevices of the cliff at the back 
of the shipbuilding yard, and wait until they returned from their 
explorations. 
In no instance then was there an association of ancient and 
modern fauna, save of an accidental character; and the evidence 
of the stalagmitic-breccia, and of the cave-earth proper, is intact. 
The quantity of bones found in all was not less than a cartload ; 
but only a small proportion of these, comparatively, was available 
for scientific purposes. Many were locked up in stalagmite ; a 
great number were simple fragments ; and of those that were clearly 
identifiable the smaller portion only were fairly perfect. Under 
these circumstances the Institution is all the more indebted to 
Messrs. Burnard, Lack, and Alger, that they should have placed the 
entire collection for selection at its disposal. With a few unim- 
portant exceptions the whole of the human remains are now in 
our Museum, and every non-duplicated example also, with a large 
quantity of the stalagmitic-breccia. 
It is not easy to take a satisfactory census of the animals whose 
remains were found in this ancient charnel ; but among the larger 
deer and man preponderated ; the hog and the various bovine 
species coming next ; followed by the wolf, hyaena, fox, and badger. 
Of the cave -lion, rhinoceros, and polecat, so far as I am aware, 
these were only single representatives. The smaller mammals 
might be counted by the hundred ; of the larger there were at 
least seventy or eighty individuals. 
