1822-1824.] 
RELIQUIAE DILUVIANJEt; 
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bones of the ox and horse, were found, in the year 1815, 
in a bed of diluvium, which is immediately incumbent on 
stratified beds of lias. . . . One of these heads, measuring 
in length two feet six inches, together with a small tusk, 
and molar tooth of an elephant, have, by the kindness of 
Henry Hakewell, Esq. (of architectural celebrity), been 
deposited in the museum at Oxford.” 1 
A curved tusk, from the same place, measuring seven 
feet in length, together with a highly valuable collection 
of the bones of rhinoceros, 2 were deposited in the Oxford 
Museum till Dr. Buckland placed his collection in the 
Clarendon. 
The book achieved a remarkable success. Buckland 
writes to the Rev. W. Vernon Harcourt, December 3rd, 
1823 
“ I am very proud of the rapid sale my book has had ; 
not a copy has been left for some time. Mr. Murray is 
very busy in bringing out a second edition of one thousand 
copies more. You of course have seen the very flattering 
review of it in the Quarterly —it is by Dr. Copleston.” 
Later on in the month he says :— 
“ The second edition of my first volume comes out this 
week, and Mr. Murray tells me he has already sold four 
hundred copies of it to the booksellers, and expects the 
whole edition (one thousand copies) will be out of print in 
six months. I cannot but think myself very successful in 
my first attempt at a quarto vol. 
“ I have just been to London to sit on a Committee of 
1 “Reliquiae Diluvianae,” pp. 174 to 177. 
2 Many of these latter have been engraved in Cuvier’s “Animaux 
Fossiles,” vol. ii., from drawings by Miss Morland, whom Dr. Buckland 
afterwards married. 
