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at least, the entire skeleton of the one or more hyenas that died last, and 
left no survivors to devour them, we find a sufficient reply to this question, 
in the circumstance of the probable destruction of the last individuals by 
the diluvian waters : on the rise of these, had there been any hyznas in the 
den, they would have rushed out, and fled for safety to the hills; and if 
absent, they could by no possibility lave returned to it from the higher 
levels: that they did so perish on the continent is obvious, from the dis- 
covery of their bones in the diluvial gravel of Germany, as well as in the 
caves. The same circumstance will also explain the reason why there are 
no bones found on the outside of the Kirkdale cave, as described by 
Busbequius on the outside of the hyzenas’ dens in Anatolia ; for every thing 
that lay without, on the antediluvian surface, must have been swept far 
away, and scattered by the violence of the diluvian waters; and there is 
no reason for believing that hyenas, or any other animals whatever, have 
occupied the den at any period subsequent to that catastrophe, 
It seems evident from the contents of this cave, that the 
country was once inhabited by animals no longer known in this 
climate ; the author thinks that at the period of the deluge the 
mud was introduced, and the inhabitants destroyed ; and lastly, 
that this mud was incrusted by calcareous matter, since which 
no animal of magnitude entered the cave till it was opened in 
the summer of 1821. 
Mr. Buckland’s paper is illustrated by a map and numerous 
engravings, showing the appearance of the teeth and bones ; 
of these, we may add, a good collection has been presented to 
the Royal Institution by W. Salmond, Esq., of York, who has 
very successfully interested himself in the examination of this 
truly singular assemblage. 
17. Communication of a curious appearance lately observed upon 
the Moon. By the Rev. Fearon Fallows. In a Letter addressed 
to John Barrow, Esq., F.R.S. 
This letter is dated ‘*‘ Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, 
Dec. 13, 1821.” It describes a white spot on the dark part 
of the moon’s limb, then and there seen by Mr. Fallows. 
18. On, the difference in the appearance of the teeth and the 
shape of the skull in different species of Seals. By Sir E. 
Home, Bart., V.P.R.S. 
This is a description of three skulls of seals, which are shown 
to differ from each other in three annexed engravings. 
IV. Treatise on Meteorology, by John Leslie, Esgq., 
Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of 
Edinburgh, and corresponding Member of the Royal 
Institute of France*. 
Were the progress of any science proportionate to the number 
and anxious zeal of its cultivators, that of meteorology should 
* Published in the supplement to the fourth and fifth editions of the En- 
cyelopedia Britannica, vol. v., part od. 
