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APPENDIX. 



On the occurrence of the remains of Elephants, and 

 other Quadrupeds, in the cViffs of frozen mud, in 

 Eschscholtz Bay, within Beerings Strait, and in 

 other distant parts of the shores of the Arctic seas. 



BY THE REV. WM. BUCKLAND, D.D., F.R.S,, F.L.S., F.G.S., AND PROFESSOR OP GEOLOGY 

 AND MINERALOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. 



Having been requested, at the time of Captain Beechey's 

 return to England in October, 1828, to examine the collec- 

 tion of animal remains w^hich he brought home from the shores 

 of Eschscholtz Bay, and to prepare a description of them for 

 the present publication, I attended at the Admiralty to assist 

 at the opening and distribution of these specimens. The 

 most perfect series, including all the specimens engraved in 

 plates 1, 2, 3, (fossils), was selected for the British Museum; 

 another series, including some of the largest tusks of elephants, 

 was sent to the Museum of the College at Edinburgh, and 

 other tusks to the Museum of the Geological Society of Lon- 

 don. To the plates of these fossils, I have added a map of 

 the bay in which they were collected, on the same spot where 

 similar remains were first discovered by Lieutenant Kotzebue 

 and Dr. Eschscholtz, on the 8th of August, 1816. Captain 

 Beechey, in the course of his Narrative (p. 352 and 444, 

 Vol. L), has given a general description of the circumstances 

 attending the examination of the locality in which the ex- 

 istence of these bones had been indicated by Lieutenant 

 Kotzebue, and before I proceed to offer any observations of 

 my own on these remarkable organic remains, or on the 



