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Account of the Skull of a Fossil Qtiadrnmanous Animal Jbund 

 in the Tertiary RocJcs of the Suh-Himalayan Hills near the 

 Sutlej. 



In the 22cl volume of this Journal, pp. 403-4^5, we gave an 

 account of the jaw of a fossil monkey found imbedded in the 

 tertiary formation of Simmore, in the department of Gers in 

 France. We have now the pleasure of communicating a notice 

 of the discovery in India of similar remains in tertiary strata by 

 two active and intelligent engineers, Messrs W. E. Barker, and 

 H. M. Durant. Their account is contained in the 59th number 

 of that interesting periodical, the " Journal of the Asiatic So- 

 ciety of Bengal," from which the following is extracted. 



" The specimen figured in Plate I. fig. 3, J, was found in the hills near 

 the Sutlej ; and it appears from the attached matrix to have been derived 

 from a stratum very similar in composition to the one described as occurring 

 at the Maginund deposit. The fragment consists of the right half of an 

 upper jaw; the molars, as to number, are complete, but the first has lost some 

 of its exterior enamel, and the fifth has likewise had a portion of the ename! 

 from its hind side chipped off. The second and third molars are a good deal 

 worn ; and the state of the fourth and fifth such as to indicate that the animal 

 was perfectly adult. The canine is small, but much mutilated, its insertion 

 into the jaw and its section being all that is distinct. 



From the inspection of the molar teeth, the order to which the animal be- 

 longed is sufficiently evident ; but there is enough of the orbit remaining to 

 afford additional and very satisfactory proof; the lower part of the orbit and 

 the start of the zygomatic arch being very distinct, would alone remove all 

 doubt from the subject, the orbits of the Quadrumana being peculiar, and not 

 easily to be confounded with those of other animals. 



On comparison with the delineations of the dentition of this order of ani- 

 mals given by F. Cuvier, the fossil bears some resemblance to the genus 

 Semnopilkecus ; the section of the canine, and the form and size of the false 

 molars, are very similar to the exemplar taken by F. Cuvier from a head of 

 the species Maiinis, a species found in Java ; had the drawing been taken from 

 the Enlcllus, a species which inhabits India, the comparison would in this in- 

 stance have been more satisfactory; the Jl/aJ«i/« being chosen as the type, and 

 no mention made of other difference except length of canines, the various 

 species may be supposed to present no material departure from the type in 

 form of molars. The third molar in the fossil is so much worn as not to ad- 

 mit of being compared with drawings fiom unworn teeth ; the fourth is like 

 that of the Maurus ; but the fifth does not resemble the analogous molars of 

 vnj of the existing species, as represented by F. Cuvier, for the fossil tooth 



