160 Notice and Review of the Reliquiae Diluvianae, 
and reasonings that led to these highly important results, 
we can assure our readers that they will find the chain com- 
plete in Professor Buckland’s wo 
As already observed, all the larger bones found in the 
Kirkdale cave are splintered, broken and gnawed, so “that 
there is no hope of obtaining materials for the construction 
of a single limb, and still less of an entire skeleton.” ‘The 
teeth and solid bones of the tarsus and earpus, however, 
are not usually*fractured, and their number is twenty times 
greater than could have been supplied by the individuals 
whose bones are found in the cave. One collector alone 
obtained more than 300 canine teeth of the hyaena ; which 
must have belonged to 75 individuals; and it is certain, 
that 200, or 300, of these animals, must have died in the 
cave. Let us hear the author’s conclusions from such 
acts. 
“ It must already appear probable, from the facts above 
described, particularly from the comminuted state and ap- 
Bees gnawed condition of the bones, that the cave at 
irkdale was, during a long succession of years, inhabited 
as a den by hyznas, and that they dragged intoits recesses 
the other animal bodies, whose remains are mixed indis- 
criminately with their own: this conjecture is rendered al- 
most certain by the discovery I made, of many small balls 
of the solid calcareous excrement of an animal that ha 
fed on bones, resembling the substance known in the old 
Materia Medica by the name of Album Graecum : its ex- 
ternal form is that of a sphere, irregularly compressed, as 
in the feces of sheep, and varying from half an inch, to an 
inch and an half in diameter. It was at first sight recogni- 
sed by the keeper of the Menagerie at Exeter Change, as 
resembling both in form and appearance, the feces of the 
spotted or Cape hyaena, which he stated to be greedy of 
bones beyond all other beasts under his care.” p. 19. This 
album graecum was analysed by Dr. Wollaston, andfoundto 
consist, as might be expected, of fecal matter, derived 
from bones, of phosphate of lime, carbonate of lime and @ 
small proportion of the of the triple phosphate of ammonia 
and magnesia. Since the publication of Mr. Buckland’s - 
work, the album greecum has been found at the cave Jn 
much greater quantities than was at first supposed. (Ed. 
Rev. Oct. 1823, p. 208.) 
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