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TV.—CATALOGUE OF VERTEBRATE FOSSILS FROM THE SIWALIKS OF INDIA 
IN THE SCIENCE AND ART MUSEUM, DUBLIN. By R. LYDEKKER, 
B.A., F.G.8., F.Z.S. (Plate III. and Woodcuts.) 
[Read, March 17, 1884.] 
Havine been recently engaged in naming and cataloguing the valuable collection of 
Vertebrate Fossils from the Siwaliks* of India which are contained in the Dublin 
Museum of Science and Art, I have thought it advisable to submit this Catalogue, 
with a few notes on the more important specimens, to the Royal Dublin Society, in 
the hope that they may deem it worthy of a place among their publications. I am 
induced to do this from the circumstance that the collection contains a considerable 
number of extremely rare and even unique specimens (many of which I have lately 
had an opportunity of figuring and describing in the “ Palzontologia Indica”; 
and the figures of which, by the permission of the Superintendent of the Geological 
Survey of India, are here reproduced); whence it is extremely important that 
there should be a permanent and easily accessible record of the whole contents 
of the collection. It is only by the publication of catalogues like the present that 
collections of special interest and value contained in local museums can be made 
useful to students working on the subjects of such collections. 
The present collection, as I am informed by the Director of the Museum, has 
been made by the fusion of five smaller collections; and in its present condition 
is probably second only to the collection of the British Museum, among the 
collections of the United Kingdom. ‘The specimens from each of the five minor 
* Tt may be well to mention that the Siwaliks of India, Burma, and Perim Island, in the Gulf of 
Cambay, correspond in the main to the pliocene of Europe, but may possibly also contain some 
representations of the upper miocene. For the distribution of the formation the reader is referred to 
Medlicott and Blanford’s ‘‘ Manual of the Geology of India” (Calcutta, 1879); and for the vertebrate 
fauna to Falconer and Cautley’s ‘‘ Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis” (London, 1846-49) ; to ‘‘ The Paleon- 
tological Memoirs of the late Hugh Falconer,” edited by Chas. Murchison (London, 1868) ; and to the 
works of the present writer in the Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India (‘‘ Palewontologia 
Indica,” ser. x., vols. i., il., iii.). 
TRANS. ROY. DUB. SOC., N.S. VOL. I. L 
