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CAVE HUNTING.
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C. F. Kell Lath. London F.C.
ENAMELS FROM THE VICTORIA CAVE. p98.
London; Macmillan & Co. 1874.
CAVE HUNTING,
RESEARCHES ON
THE EVIDENCE OF CAVES
RESPECTING THE
EARLY INHABITANTS OF EUROPE
BY
W. BOYD DAWKINS, M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S., F.S.A.,
Curator of the Museum and Lecturer in Geology in The Owens College, Manchester.
ILLUSTRATED BY COLOURED PLATE AND WOODCUTS.
London:
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1874.
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LONDON:
R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS,
BREAD STREET HILL.
TO
THE BARONESS BURDETT COUTTS,
THE FOUNDER OF THE SCHOLARSHIPS
FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCE
IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD,
This Work is Dedicated,
AS A SLIGHT ACKNOWLEDGMENT FROM HER FIRST SCHOLAR.
The exploration of caves is rapidly becoming an importantfield of inquiry, and their contributions toour knowledge of the early history of the sojourn ofmen in Europe are daily increasing in value and innumber. Since the year 1823, when Dr. Bucklandpublished his famous work, the “Reliquiæ Diluvianæ,”no attempt has been made to correlate, and bring intothe compass of one work, the crude mass of facts whichhave been recorded in nearly every country in Europe.In this volume I have attempted to bring the historyof cave-exploration down to the knowledge of to-day,and to put its main conclusions before my readers inone connected and continuous narrative. Since Dr.Buckland wrote, the momentous discovery of humanrelics along with the extinct animals in caves andriver deposits has revolutionised the current ideas asto the antiquity and condition of man; and worksof art of a high order, showing a familiarity wit