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the Sub-Himalayan mountains. l The petrified Human Ske- 

 leton from the coral-rocks of Guadaloupe must also be well 

 known from the figures and descriptions of this interesting 

 fossil, that have appeared in every elementary work on 

 Geology. 2 



It will, therefore, be unnecessary, in reviewing this grand assemblage 

 of Organic Kemains, to enter so largely on the nature and history of the 

 respective objects, as I felt it necessary to do in attempting to render 

 many of the fossils contained in the rooms we have passed under exami- 

 nation, intelligible and interesting to the unscientific observer; and 

 the limits necessarily prescribed to this volume, render details inadmis- 

 sible. Under the following general heads, the most important specimens 

 will be concisely noticed; I. Synopsis of the Contents of Room VI. 

 II. Fossil Mammalia from the Sewalik Hills. III. Mastodons and Ele- 

 phants of North America. IV. Mammalian remains from the Tertiary 

 formations of Europe. V. The Megatherium and other fossil Edentata 

 of South America. VI. Fossil Mammalia of the Caverns. VII. Petri- 

 fied Human Skeleton of Guadaloupe. 



The fossil Invertebrata in the Table-cases are so well arranged, and 

 so distinctly labelled, as to be readily understood and identified, and 

 require no especial description. 



ROOM VI. 



(70 feet long.) 



SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS. 



"WALL-CASES A and B. The cases on the left or south side of this 

 room contain an extensive and matchless collection of the fossil remains 

 of Elephants and Mastodons ; the suite of crania, jaws and teeth, and 

 tusks, comprises specimens of extraordinary interest, and would alone 

 confer celebrity on any Gallery of Organic Remains. These petrifactions 

 are chiefly from the Tertiary deposits of the Sewalik Hills, in Northern 

 India, and were collected by Major Proby T. Cautley, and Dr. Falconer ; 

 there are likewise some fine examples of similar parts of skeletons of 

 Mammoths and Mastodons from the alluvial beds of North America. 



The skulls and teeth of the Elephantine family commence in Case A, 

 and the specimens are placed serially according to their affinity to the 

 kindred group, the Mastodons. The latter occupy the western end of 

 Case B; and the transitional types are placed in the central division of 

 the cabinet ; thus constituting a most instructive series of the crania, 

 and maxillary and dental organs, of the extinct forms of proboscidean 

 pachyderms. 



The skulls are named and arranged in the following order : 



1 " Wonders of Geology," p. 162. 2 Ibid. p. 88. 



