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This is an immense volume that brings together a number of papers that led to and emerged from the work of the Cave Research Foundation over a period of about fifteen years. Origins is loaded with information for anybody interested in cave exploration, research, science, archeology, geology, and the beginnings and early history of the CRF--one of the most successful voluntary cave research organizations in the world. It also contains the first 10 years worth of CRF Annual Reports. These reports show vividly and graphically how the scientific work, through trials and tribulations, grew and evolved into the cave science of today. Nowhere else is this amount of information available in one place. It is one of those books that no matter how many times you pick it up and read it, you will always find something else you hadn't read before. A must for any cave book collection.