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XVI. Account of an assemblage of Fossil Teeth and Bones of 
Elephant, Rhinoceros, Hippopotamus, Bear, Tiger, and Hycena, 
and sixteen other animals ; discovered in a cave at Kirkdale, 
Torkshire, in the year 1821 : with a comparative view of five 
similar caverns in various parts of England, and others on 
the Continent. By the Rev. William Buckland, F. R. S. 
F.L.S. Vice President of the Geological Society of London, 
and Professor of Mineralogy and Geology in the University of 
Oxford, &c. &c. &c. 
Read February 21, 1822. 
Having been induced in December last to visit Yorkshire, 
for the purpose of investigating the circumstances of the cave 
at Kirkdale, near Kirby Moorside, about 25 miles N. N. E. of 
the city of York, in which a discovery was made last summer 
of a singular collection of teeth and bones, I beg to lay be- 
fore the Royal Society the result of my observations on this 
new and interesting case, and to point out some important 
general conclusions that arise from it. 
The facts I have collected, seem calculated to throw an 
important light on the state of our planet at a period antece- 
dent to the last great convulsion that has affected its surface; 
and I may add, in limine, that they afford one of the most 
complete and satisfactory chains of consistent circumstantial 
evidence I have ever met with in the course of my geological 
investigations. 
As I shall have frequent occasion to make use of the word 
