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Mr. Buckland on the 
Siberian rhinoceros, and three large tusks and teeth of elephants, 
with some stags horns and bones of the ox, were found in the year 
1815 in a bed of diluvian gravel, connected with that which we 
have been speaking of near Shipston ; this gravel is immediately 
incumbent on stratified beds of lias ; it is composed of a mixture of 
various pebbles, sand, and clay, in the lower regions of which, 
where the clay predominates, the bones are found, at the depth 
of fifteen feet from the surface ; they are not in the smallest degree 
mineralised. One of these heads measuring in length two feet six 
inches, together with one of the tusks, and a grinding-tooth of an 
elephant, have, by the kindness of Henry Hakewill, Esq. (of 
architectural celebrity) been deposited in the Radcliff Library at 
Oxford. The other and larger head, with a tooth and leg-bone of 
the same animal, has been presented by Henry Warburton, Esq. to 
the Geological Society of London. Of the remaining tusks of 
elephants, the largest is in the possession of G. Harris, Esq. of 
Rugby, and the other of J. Caldecot, Esq. of Lawford. These tusks 
have all of them a considerable curvature outwards towards the 
point, like those of the fossil mammoth, or extinct elephant, which 
abounds in the gravel of Russia, of which one specimen was found 
with its flesh still entire on it, bedded in a mass of ice on the north 
coast of Siberia, and is now placed in the Museum of the Academy 
at St. Petersburg, with the dried flesh and skin still adhering to its 
head. 
In the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford there is a similar head of 
a rhinoceros to those found near Rugby, of the same length and 
proportions with them, and also resembling that engraved in vol. 2 
of Cuvier’s Animaux Fos sites, at PI. 4, No. 12, in his chapter on 
Rhinoceros, and quoted by him as having been found at Lippstadt, 
in Westphalia, and being in the collection of Adrian Camper. It 
