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ADAM SEDGWICK AND WILLIAM BUCKLAND. 
of Paramoudra. The animal nature of these bodies, and their spongi- 
ferous character, was pointed out and insisted upon. In 1823 Dr. 
Buckland published the results of his work in the Kirkdale Cave, 
which will be found referred to on another page. The Reliquiae 
Diluvianw will always associate Dr. Buckland with Yorkshire Geo- 
logy, and though the accident of his birth chanced to take place in 
another county, it cannot be inappropriate that this short notice of 
him should be given amongst other Yorkshire Geologists. 
During the next two or three years Dr. Buckland examined and 
identified a considerable number of the remains of extinct animals 
found in the "VVealden of this country by Mr. Mantell and others ; 
amongst them the remains of ^legalosaurus. Mr. Crawford had been 
investigating the River Gravels along the course of the Irrawaddy, 
and found a large collection of Fossil Bones which he had brought to 
this country, and submitted for examination to Dr. Buckland. In 
these he found evidence of similar animals to those which he had 
already discovered in the Yorkshire Cave. Two species of mastodon, 
one of hippopotamus, one of rhinoceros, exhibited a similar character 
to those from Kirkdale, and appeared to indicate that the warmer 
climate which existed in this country at the period those animals 
lived extended also to India. 
In 1829 he described and named the Pterodactylus raacronyx, 
discovered by ^liss Mary Anning in the blue lias of Lyme Regis. At 
the same time he described a bed of Coprolites or fossil foeces, which 
he had discovered in the same district ; it extended for many miles, 
and was several inches in thickness. This discovery was the result 
of Dr. Buckland's previous identification of the Album Gr?ecum as 
excrementious matter of hyienas in the Cave of Kirkdale, and glancing 
as it were over the long series of organic life and death, he concludes 
that " in formations of all ages, from the first creation of vertebral 
animals to the comparatively recent period at which hyrenas accumu- 
lated Album Gr?ecum in their antediluvian dens, the foeces of aquatic 
and terrestrial animals have been preserved, the coprolites being 
records of warfare waged by successive generations of inhabitants of 
our planets on one another, the imperishable phospate of lime 
derived from their digested skeletons having become embalmed in the 
