QUADRUMANA. 7 
from side to side, which is also the case with the hind- 
most fossil grinder, as is illustrated in the cuts. As, 
moreover, the two fossil molars bore the same proportions 
to one another as the corresponding teeth from the same 
jaw of the recent Macacque bear to each other, it was 
reasonable to conclude that the two fossils appertained 
to the same extinct species of Macacus. 
The evidence on which the fossil Monkey in the Eocene 
strata of England has been determined, is of the same kind 
as that which has brought to light the former existence of 
another and apparently higher species of Quadrumane, in 
the South of France, and is equally conclusive with that 
by which Quadrumanous fossils have also been recognised 
in India, and in South America. 
In all the instances, however, of the discovery of Anthro- 
pomorphous fossils in foreign countries, the amount of the 
evidence yielded by the fossils has been greater than that 
which has hitherto been obtained from the tertiary strata 
of Britain. Lieutenants Baker and Durand, who first an- 
nounced the fact of a fossil quadrumane in 1836,* sup- 
ported their highly important statement by the description 
and figures of an almost entire right superior maxillary 
bone, containing the five molar teeth and part of the 
canine, and demonstrating the anterior aspect of the orbits, 
which is so marked a peculiarity of the Quadrumana. This 
rare and valuable fossil was obtained from the tertiary 
strata of mixed calcareous sandstone and clay, in the Sub- 
Himalayan hills near the Sutlej. 
In the year following, Captain Cautley and Dr. Falconer 
discovered in the same formation of the Sub-Himalayan 
district, a considerable portion of the lower jaw, with all 
* Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, for November 1836, p. 739 
pl. XLVuL 
