AN ACCOUNT 
AN ASSEMBLAGE OF FOSSIL TEETH AND BONES, 
SfC. 
That portion of the present Memoir which relates to the history of 
the cave at Kirkdale, together with a short review of its relation to 
other similar caves in England and Germany, has already appeared 
before the public in the Philosophical Transactions for 1822: the cave 
had been discovered in the summer of 1821, and having gone into 
Yorkshire for the purpose of examining it in the following December, 
I lost no time in laying the results of my investigation before the Royal 
Society of London. The encouragement they have since given me, 
by the award of their Copley medal, emboldens me to bring the sub¬ 
ject again before the public in its present enlarged form; with an ad¬ 
ditional account of subsequent discoveries of several other caverns in 
England, and of an examination I undertook last summer of the most 
remarkable caves in Germany. To these I shall add a collection of 
facts presented by the form and structure of hills and valleys, and the 
accumulation on the earth’s surface of diluvial loam and gravel, con¬ 
taining the remains of animals of the same kind with those that occur 
in the caverns; all tending to throw an important light on the state of 
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