360 Prof ,BnckIand on the Anoplot/ierium Commune, [Nor. 



tiue. I have royaelf considered the subject frequently, and with 

 all the attention of which I ara capable, and I am eatitfied that 

 a better established j fact is not to b6 found within the limits of 

 chemical science. 

 G/«,^o«., Oct. 1, 1825. ^0 ..mrw Koi/m ri)«u sdj lo mmO 



Article IX. 



On the Discovery of the Anoplotherium CommtJakmAf the Isle of 

 Wight, By the Kev. W. Buckland, Professor of Geology in 

 the University of Oxford. 



(To the Editors of the Annals of Philosophy.) 

 Gdhi Josnoa 9,0irf G s> ^- *^ 



GENTLEMEN, , o,ft g|> f, }> ; ^-t^ Ox/orrf, Ocf. 4, 1824. 



Since the publication of Mr. Webster's excellent Memoirs on 

 the Geology of the Isle of Wight, and the coasts adjacent to it, 

 no doubt has existed as to the identity of the freshwater forma- 

 tions that occur so extensively in that island with those described 

 by Cuvier and Brongniart in the vicinity of Paris ; and this 

 conclusion has rested on the similarity of the remains of fresh- 

 water molluscee and vegetables which these formations respect- 

 ively contain, and on a correspondence in their substance, and 

 their relative position to other strata of marine origin, quite 

 sufficient to establish the contemporaneous deposition of these 

 remarkable strata at the bottom of ancient fresh water lakes in 

 the districts which are geologically distinguished by the appel- 

 lation of the basin of Hampshire and the basin of Paris. 



There was still, however, a further point on which evidence 

 appeared desirable, inasmuch as the remains of the genus 

 Anoplotherium and other large lacustrine quadrupeds which occur 

 in the basin of Paris, had not been ascertained to exist in 

 England. This desideratum I have long felt anxious to supply, 

 and in a rapid excursion to the west of the Isle of Wight two 

 years ago, I sought for the bones of these animals in the cliffs 

 of Headon Hill and Totland Bay, and some adjacent quarries 

 of the interior, without finding any thing more than a small frag- 

 ment too indistinct to be considered decisive of a point to 

 which no other evidence had yet been adduced. But in the 

 month of November last, whilst occupied in looking over the 

 cabinets of Mr. Thomas AHan,i of Edinburgh, I discovered a 

 tooth, which he informed me ho had hiraBelf collected several 

 years ago in'^the Tsl^ of Wight in the quarries of Binstead, near 

 Kide^^and Twhieh itolediatoiy struck me as belonging to one of 

 thd' atvi,raidB^;l had teen so long in search of ; and on ray subse.-? 

 quently^stR>wh1g it to Mr. Pentland (who is acburat^ly Versed id* 

 all the details of the fossil qimdrupedstQ^the'Pwna'basinJihe at 



