When I read, three months ago, my paper on Kent's Cavern, I little thought I should so soon have to chronicle the death of its famous explorer, William Pengelly. That sad event occurred at Torquay on 17th March last. The son of a Cornish fisherman, William Pengelly was born at East Looe, a village in Cornwall, on 12th January 1812, so that he died at the ripe age of eighty-two. He began life as a sailor, but his scientific leanings made him become a teacher at Torquay, where he established a school. To the end of his life he continued giving lectures on Science at schools and institutes, possessing, as he did, in a rare degree, the art of presenting Science to the public in a lucid and attractive way. But he was not merely an admirable speaker, he was also a man of action. He established the Torquay Mechanics' Institute in 1837. He founded the Torquay Natural History Society in 1844, and the Devonshire Association in 1862. It was in 1841, when twenty-nine years old, that Pengelly attended the sale of the effects of the Rev. John MacEnery, who had just died. MacEnery had from the year 1825 made continuous researches into a then little known cave near Torquay, popularly called “Kent's Hole.” Himself a Roman Catholic priest, MacEnery called in the assistance of an eminent Anglican clergyman, the Rev. Dr Buckland, author of “ Reliquiae Diluvianae,” who was at that time the great authority on ossiferous caves in