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ACCOUNT OF FOSSIL TEETH AND BONES 
noticed by Mr. Harrison, a medical gentleman of Kirby Moorside, 
and have since been collected and dispersed amongst so many indi¬ 
viduals, that it is probable nearly all the specimens will in a few 
years be lost, with the exception of such as may be deposited in 
public collections. By the kindness and liberality of the Bishop of 
Oxford (to whom I am also indebted for my first information of the 
existence of this cave) and of C. Buncombe, Esq. and Lady Charlotte 
Duncombe, of Buncombe Park, a nearly complete series of the teeth 
discovered in it has been presented to the Museum at Oxford; 
whilst a still better collection, both of teeth and bones, is in the pos¬ 
session of J. Gibson, Esq. of Stratford in Essex, to whose exertions 
we owe the preservation of many valuable specimens, and who has 
presented a series of them to several public collections in London * 
W. Salmond, Esq. also, of York, has been engaged with much zeal 
and activity in measuring and exploring new branches of the cave, 
and making large collections of the teeth and bones, from which he 
has sent specimens to the Royal Institution of London and to M. 
Cuvier. He has recently deposited the bulk of his collection at the 
newly-established Philosophical Society at York. I am indebted to 
him for the annexed ground plan of the cave, and its ramifications, 
* The British Museum, the Royal College of Surgeons, and the Geological Society 
have all been enriched by the liberality of Mr. Gibson. The Geological Society pos¬ 
sesses also a magnificent collection of the remains of elephant, rhinoceros, ox, elk, and 
other antediluvian animals found in the diluvian gravel beds of various parts of England, 
together with some fine specimens of bones from the caverns of Germany: their collec¬ 
tion also of the organic remains found in the secondary strata of England, and of speci¬ 
mens of the strata themselves, is arranged in a manner which affords to the members of 
that society the most ready access to a knowledge of the physical changes which the 
country we inhabit has undergone, and of general geology. 
