DISCOVERED AT KIUKDaLE, YORKSHIRE. 26S 
writer. Some part of what he has to state, has already ap- 
peared in a more ample form, in the Geological Survey 
of the Yorkshire Coast, just pubhshed; and more may 
be found in a paper lately communicated to the Royal 
Society by Professor Buckland, which is expected to 
make its appearance in a few weeks: yet several of the 
following particulars have been ascertained since the de- 
scriptions now referred to were drawn up. 
The opening of the cavern at Kirkdale, near Kirkby 
Moorside, in Yorkshire, which occurred in July 1821, has 
brought to light the most singular deposit of such animal 
remains hitherto observed ; for though the caves of Gay- 
ienreuth in Germany, and some in other parts of the Con- 
tinent, present much larger accumulations of bones and 
teeth, the relics entombed at Kirkdale surpass them all in 
point of variety. Here were found the teeth and bones of 
the elephant, the rhinoceros, the hippopotamus, the horse, 
the ox, the elk or stag, the hyena, the wolf, the bear, the 
tiger, the fox, and the rat; and of some other animals, 
both large and small, not yet ascertained. Some of the 
larger teeth have been assigned, in the Geological Survey, 
to the Palaotherium magnum^ as they appeared to corre- 
spond exactly with Mr Parkinson's description of the 
teeth of that extinct animal; but the author has found 
that they belong to the lower jaw of the Rhinoceros. 
The most remarkable specimen not yet identified, is that 
figured in the Geological Survey, Plate xvii.. No. 11., 
from the collection of the Reverend Jos. Smyth, A. B. of 
Kirkby Moorside. A correct model of that specimen, 
executed by Mr Bird of Whitby, is now presented to the 
Wernerian Society. 
Along with the bones of quadrupeds, there were dis- 
covered a few bones of fowls. The specimen given in the 
<jreological Survey, Plate xvii., Fig. 3., seems to be a wing- 
