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these strata to those igidicated by the specimens described by Mr. Cole- 

 brooke, in Vol. I, Pgirt 1, second series of the ideological Transactions, 

 which had already established the existence of this formation in the I^. E. ^ , 

 border of Bengal. 



Mr. Crawfurd states distinctly, that it is impossible to refer the situa- 

 tion of the bones, or the origin of the hills containing them, to any opera- 

 tions of the existing -river : these hills are sixty feet above the levelpf its , ^ ' 

 highest flood ; the effect of its actual operations, he observes alSo, is dis- il^ iff' 

 tinctly visible in the shifting islands of mud and sand that abound along 

 the whole course of the river within this high-flood level, and in the great^ ^ 

 alluvial delta that extends from a little below Prome to Rangoon and the 

 gulf of Martaban. 



The recent bones and recent wood which he observed to be stranded 

 on some of these islands, were not in a state of progress towards becom- 

 ing mineralized, but were %llin^ rapidly to decay. -^ 



The existence of so many animal remains analogous to those that occur 

 in the diluvium of Europe, iti a matrix which so nearly resembles that 

 diluvium, and which so decidedly differs from the alluvium, and fresh- 

 water, and tertiary strata of the adjacent country, seems to authorize us 

 to refer this matrix to a similar .diluvial deposit in the valley of the Irawadi, ^ j^ 

 reposing irr^ularly upon the tertiary and other stratified rocks, that form'^ 

 the basis of that district. 



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On the same evening, after the ordinary business of the ^ociety had 

 been transacted, a special general meeting was held, when the President 

 baying stated that the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury 

 had been pleased tb transfer to this Society some of the apai^'ents in .f. 



Somerset House \—^ 



It was resolved unanimously. That a Subscription be immediately 

 entered upon to defray the expense of the necessary repairs in the apart- 

 ments recently granted tp the Society in Somerset House, and of the 

 removal thereto. 



May 2. — A letter was read from J. B. Pentland, Esq., addressed to 

 W. H. Fitton, M.D., P.G.S., respecting the fossil remains of some animals 

 from the N. E. border of Bengal. 



The authour Jias discovered among the mutilated fragments of bones 



