PREFACE. 



In the year 1884, Mr. R. Lydekker prepared a list of 

 our extensive collection of fossil remains from the Siwalik 

 Hills of India, and up to the present year, owing to want 

 of space, that collection has been kept isolated from the 

 other specimens of Vertebrate fossils contained in the 

 Museum. 



As soon, however, as space became available by the 

 removal of the Art collections to the New Building, the 

 whole of the fossils formerly distributed throughout the 

 Museum were concentrated in what had been the Temporary 

 Art Museum, and were there roughly classified. 



Mr. Lydekker having again given us the benefit of 

 his services, has on this occasion classified and enumerat- 

 ed in the following pages the whole collection of Fossil 

 Vertebrates, exclusive of the fishes. 



As the author of the British Museum catalogues on 

 the same subjects Mr. Lydekker is so well known as an 

 expert, that it is peculiarly gratifying to be able to refer to 

 the high opinion which he has formed of the value and 

 importance of the specimens in this, hitherto, unavoidably 

 somewhat neglected collection. 



The Vertebrate fossils having now been classified, it is 

 hoped that the Invertebrate fossils, of which also there is a 

 large collection, will ere long be similarly dealt with, and 

 that we shall then have this Department of the Museum in 

 a thoroughly good condition of arrangement. 



V. BALL, 



Director, 

 Science and A rt Museum. 



Leinster House, 

 13th. November, 1890. 



