APPENDIX. 
ON THE OCCURRENCE OF THE REMAINS OF ELEPHANTS, AND OTHER QUA- 
DRUPEDS, IN THE CLIFFS OF FROZEN MUD, IN ESCHSCHOLTZ BAY, WITHIN 
BEERING’S STRAIT, AND IN OTHER DISTANT PARTS OF THE SHORES OF THE 
ARCTIC SEAS. 
BY THE REV. WM. BUCKLAND^ D. D., F. R. S.^ F. L. S., F. G. S., AND PROFESSOR OF GEOLOGY 
AND MINERALOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. 
Having been requested, at the time of Captain Beechey’s return to England 
in October, 1828, to examine the collection of animal remains which he brought 
home from the shores of Eschscholtz Bay, and to prepare a description of them for 
the present publication, I attended at the Admiralty to assist at the opening and 
distribution of these specimens. The most perfect series, including all the spe- 
cimens, engraved in plates 1, 2, 3 (fossils), was selected for the British Museum ; 
another series, including some of the largest tusks of elephants, was sent to the 
Museum of the College at Edinburgh, and other tusks to the Museum of the 
Geological Society of London. To the plates of these fossils, I have added a map 
of the bay in which they were collected, on the same spot where similar remains 
were first discovered by Lieutenant Kotzebue and Dr. Eschscholtz, on the 8th of 
August, 18lG. Captain Beechey, in the course of his Narrative (p. 257, 323, 
and 560), has given a general description of the circumstances attending the 
examination of the locality in which the existence of these bones had been indi- 
cated by Lieutenant Kotzebue, and before I proceed to offer any observations of 
my own on these remarkable organic remains, or on the causes that may have 
collected them in such abundance on the spots where they are now found, I shall 
extract a further and more detailed account of the place and circumstances in 
which they were discovered, from the journal of Mr. Collie (surgeon to the 
English Expedition), by whom the bones were principally collected, and the chief 
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