CHAPTER III. 
BONE CAVES AT KIRKDALE, GOAT’S HOLE, DREAM LEAD 
MINE, AND GAILENREUTH; PUBLICATION OF “RE¬ 
LIQUIAE DILUVIANAE,” 1823 ; FIRST PRESIDENT OF 
THE ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 1824. 
1822—1824. 
I N 1822 Dr. Buckland addressed to the Royal Society, 
of which he had been elected Fellow in 1818, a paper 
describing his researches in the bone cave of Kirkdale, 
which had been discovered in the preceding year in the 
Vale of Pickering, about twenty-five miles from York, and 
was the first fossil cave known in England. This paper 
was printed in the Philosophical Transactions for 1822, 
and made so considerable an impression that its author 
was, in the same year, honoured with the Copley Medal 
of the Royal Society. 
In 1823 Dr. Buckland published in a quarto volume his 
“ Reliquiae Diluvianae.” This important work made his 
name still more widely known. To its value and influence 
Professor Boyd Dawkins of Owens College, Manchester, 
bears warm testimony :— 
“ I give you the impression of one who as an under¬ 
graduate fell under the influence of Dr. Buckland’s name 
handed down by tradition at Oxford, and who afterwards, 
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