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Our museum has just been enriched by a truly magnificent present 
of fossil bones from India, more valuable than any which have reached 
England since those obtained by Mr. Crawfurd and Dr. Wallich from 
Ava. They were collected and presented to us bya gentleman whom we 
last year elected a Fellow of this Society, Capt. Cautley of the Bengal 
Artillery, and their existence seems to have been first distinctly recog- 
nised by Dr. Falconer, superintendent of the Botanic Garden at Saha- 
runpore. These organic remains come from the range of hills for- 
merly called Sewalik, which skirt the base of the Himalayan mountains 
from the Ganges to the Sutluj rivers, or from north lat. 30° to 31°. 
They abound in part of the range to the westward of the Jumna river, 
and belong to the genera Mastodon, Elephant, Hippopotamus, Rhi- 
noceros, Hog, Anthracotherium, Horse, Ox, Deer, Antelope, Ca- 
nis, Felis, Gavial, Crocodile, Emys, Trionyx, besides fish and shells. 
Among the fossils there are some considered to be new genera, and 
one which Messrs. Cautley and Falconer have called Sevatherium. 
We have also received a splendid collection of specimens of rocks 
from the Himalayas, illustrating the two sections published by Mr. 
Royle in his work on these mountains, from the plains to the snowy 
passes, and his section across the central range of India. 
Several new facts have been brought to light in fossil ichthyo- 
logy during the last year. Sir P. Egerton has found in the coal- 
field of North Staffordshire, among other remains of fish, some 
scales of the Megalichthys, that large sauroidal fish first described 
by Dr. Hibbert as occurring at Burdiehouse, near -Edinburgh. I 
have lately seen a large tooth of this fish in a mass of Cannel coal 
found in Fifeshire by Mr. Horner and described by him in a paper 
read before the Royal Society of Edinburgh. It will be remem- 
bered that these teeth were formerly referred to saurians, to which, 
in fact, the Megalichthys had a much nearer affinity, according to 
Mr. Agassiz, than has any fish now living. Sir P. Egerton has also 
published a catalogue of the fossil fish in his cabinet at Oulton Park, 
and in that of Lord Cole, at Florence Court; two collections which 
are described by Mr. Agassiz as unrivalled in England in this de- 
partment of organic remains, and only equalled by two others in 
the rest of Europe, that of Count Munster, at Baireuth in Bavaria, 
and that of the Royal Museum of Paris*. In this catalogue Sir 
Philip has given the names and loealities of about 200 ichthyolites, 
British and foreign, and has indicated the geological position of 
each. 
Remains of fishes have been found by Mr. Prestwich in a formae 
tion of sandstone and red conglomerate which overlies the old red 
sandstone in Banffshire. He supposes the deposit to be of the age 
of the coal-measures, an opinion which is in accordance with the 
characters of the ichthyolites as determined by Mr. Agassiz. 
One of the most perplexing enigmas in paleontology has lately 
been solved by Dr. Buckland, who has discovered that some cu- 
rious fossils of the oolitic and cretaceous strata, which had long 
* Agassiz, Poiss. [oss., 4me livr. p. 45. 
