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THE Committee have again the melancholy duty of reporting that death has deprived them of one of their members. As long ago as 1859, as soon as he became aware of the importance of the discoveries made in the Windmill Hill Cavern at Brixham, Sir Charles Lyell expressed a strong desire that Kent's Cavern should also be systematically and thoroughly explored; and it was with his full concurrence that the proposal to do so was laid before the Committee of the Geological Section of the British Association at Bath in 1864, the day after he delivered his Presidential Address, whilst his ardent advocacy, together with that of the late Prof. Phillips, secured its ready acceptance by the Committee of Recommendations and the General Committee. At the first meeting of the Cavern Committee, appointed in the year just mentioned, he was unanimously elected chairman, and he continued to occupy that post until his lamented decease on Feb. 27, 1875. Though the state of his health prevented him from taking any active part in the exploration, his interest in the work never abated; he always carefully studied the Monthly Reports of Progress sent him by the superintendents, and he made careful arrangements for their preservation.
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Eleventh Report of the Committee for Exploring Kent's Cavern, Devonshire * . Nature 13, 17–19 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/013017a0
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