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Rh associated with, a similar series of animals to those found at Barrington.

Mr. said that the men who made the carvings on bone were evidently Neolithic, or still more recent, and Rhinoceros tichorhinus had survived them; for its remains were found in the stalagmite above them.

Rev. J. stated that he agreed with what Prof. Dawkins had said about the human skulls. One was found in a chamber where it was hardly possible man would have got in the Palæolithic times. He replied to Mr. Callard's remarks about the age of the human race.

Rev. O. stated that another deposit with similar remains had been found half a mile higher up the valley. The horse, abundant at Barnwell, was absent here at Barrington. He did not think gravels could be deposited in an estuary.

Prof. said the Neolithic races of man could be traced in the present European peoples; but not the Palæolithic. The oldest race was that of the river-bed men, who could not now be identified, and they ranged as far as India. The cavern race might be identified with the Esquimaux. As to the cuts on the bones in the Victoria Cave, some good judges thought they were made by metal tools. The bones were as likely to belong to sheep as to goat. Could it be maintained that domestic animals, such as sheep or goat, were Palæolithic species? So far as Middle and Northern Europe is concerned, they do not appear before the Neolithic period. He believed that in this case they came from a deposit of post-Roman age, where they were abundant.