Proceedings of the Spelæological Society for 1925

Abstract

WHEN the editor of NATURE asked me to review the above work, I was particularly pleased to do so. It has always been a source of satisfaction to me personally that I was partly instrumental in turning the attention of the Spelaeological Society of the University of Bristol, shortly after the War, towards prehistoric investigations. Previously, though the Society and its predecessor bore an honourable record for researches on underground water-ways, etc., little serious prehistoric work had been attempted. The work of the ‘Speteos’ has barely received the recognition it deserves; most people would be astonished to see how much material has been already collected and classified in the last few years; a visit to the Society's museum—housed in the new buildings of the University of Bristol—has become a necessity for all prehistorians. The difficulty has been that a few years ago—rightly or wrongly—the Society decided to publish its own Proceedings instead of combining with one of the older societies for this purpose. Folk as a rule are rather suspicious of new provincial publications of this kind, and it is to combat these suspicions in this particular case that this review is written.

Proceedings of the Spelæological Society for 1925.

No. 3, Vol. 2. (University of Bristol.) 3s.