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BUCKLAND, WILLIAM. Reliquiae Diluvianae; or, Observations on the Organic Remains contained in the Caves, Fissures, and Diluvial Gravel, and on Other Geological Phenomena, attesting the Action of an Universal Deluge. 27 plates; folding table. 4to, modern cloth; uncut. London, 1824
Second edition of a study of fossil bones found in Kirkdale Cave in Yorkshire, first published the preceding year. "Buckland considered the work his 'hyena story,' for he proposed that the cave had been the den of hyenas; he not only found fossil feces . . . and tooth-marked bones, but also made observations on the habits of modern hyenas. His important conclusion was that species of animals that now exist together only in the tropics had coexisted in northern Europe with species still in existence, and that this demonstrated a tropical climate in antediluvian times, before the deluge buried the bones in a layer of mud"--DSB II, 569.
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