What the British Caves might tell us.

Abstract

WILL you kindly allow me, as one who has made considerable additions to our Pleistocene fauna, vertebrate and invertebrate, to support Mr. Hunt's appeal for the resurrection of that vast amount of material now stored away that was obtained in Kent's Cavern? Those of us who have paid attention to the subject are aware that the recorded lists give us but a poor idea of what the caves could tell us, and that from the waste dumps have been obtained a large number of new species, and even from the lowest layers these bones include those of man himself. In these circumstances we feel the time has come, not only for this material to be put into competent hands, but for the caves to be reworked on modern lines and in the light of recent research.