70 LyDEKKER— On Siwalik Fossils in the Science and Art Museum, Dublin. 
collections are indicated in this catalogue by a distinctive letter; the origin of the 
five collections being as follows :— 
A. Specimens from the Sub-Himalayan Siwaliks, presented by the Board of 
Trinity College. 
B. Specimens from the Sub-Himalayan Siwaliks, from the old collection of the 
Museum of Trinity College, presented by the Board. 
©. Specimens from the Sub-Himalayan Siwaliks, purchased from Dr. Beatty 
by the Royal Dublin Society. 
D. Specimens presented by Sir Proby 'T. Cautley to the Museum of the Royal 
Dublin Society. 
G. Specimens from the Siwaliks of Perim Island, Gulf of Cambay, presented 
by the Board of Trinity College. 
The specimens in the series A, B, D, and G, although interesting, and affording 
a number of specimens of good typical value, are not of especial value; since they 
consist entirely of remains belonging to species abundantly represented in the 
British Museum and other large collections. The case is, however, very different 
with series C, which contains the above-mentioned rare or unique specimens. 
This series is especially rich in the remains of Carnivora, which are, comparatively 
speaking, of extremely rare occurrence in the Siwaliks; it also contains some 
valuable remains of Rhinoceros and Sus, and a few reptilian and fish remains, 
which are probably new. Apparently all the specimens in this series were 
collected by the late Generals Sir W. E. Baker and Sir H. M. Durand, who were 
among the earliest collectors of Siwalik fossils, and obtained a large series of very 
valuable specimens. A large number of the Dublin specimens, together with 
other specimens now in the British Museum, were described and figured by those 
paleontologists in the ‘Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.”* How these 
valuable specimens came into the possession of Dr. Beatty is not recorded; and 
the present writer had long been fruitlessly endeavouring to discover what had 
become of them, until he was informed of their existence in Dublin, by the present 
Director of the Museum, when Professor of Geology at Trinity College. 
In general the present catalogue merely records the name of each specimen, 
but in the case of some of the more important specimens in series C a brief reswme 
of some of the most striking specific characters is appended. The collection, like all 
collections of Siwalik bones, embraces a large number of the remains of bovoid, 
antelopoid, and cervoid ruminants, which it is in most cases impossible to 
determine even generically: these are, therefore, very generally entered in the 
catalogue merely as belonging to undetermined ruminants. 
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