Letter from the Hon Mr. C. C. Cuninghame. 9\ 



To Ike Secretary of tbe Society of 

 Arte BJid Sciences of Maumiuj. 



Pobt Locif, S2d March 184/. 

 Sir, 



In consequence of enquiries made when I 

 was last in England, about the remains of antediluvian 

 animals which had been sent to Europe from this Island, 

 I, in the beginning of October 1845, made up, for the 

 guidance of Capt. Kelly of H. M. S. Comcay and of 

 Mr. Halkett, Aide-de-Camp to His Excellency the 

 Governor, who were about to proceed to Rodriguez 

 a note of the information which it was in my power to 

 obtain, regarding the places in that Island whert it 

 was understood the fossil bones alluded to had been 

 found. 



The search was not attended with success in its main 

 object, no such remains having been discovered; and 

 it seems doubtful whether the caves visited by these 

 gentlemen were really the places where fossil remains 

 had formerly been collected, but I sent home to Sir 

 Walter Trevelyan a detail of the proceedings, hop- 

 in"- that from him or from Mr. Strickland lome fur- 

 ther information might reach me to guide in any future 

 search. 



I have lately received letters from both of these 

 gentlemen, who, in some degree abandoning the field 

 which was the subject of former correspondence, strong- 

 ly advise a search in this Island. But for the duties 

 which detain me constantly in Port Louis, I should 

 hare used my personal exertions to work out Mr, 



