468 PETRIFACTIONS AND THEIR TEACHINGS. CHAP. VI. 



of Dinotherium. A very fine specimen of part of the cranium, with the 

 maxillary bones and six molars of a Dinotherium from Epplesheim ; 

 purchased of M. Kaup. 



15. (Table-case.) Fossil Brachiopodous shells of the order JRudistes, 

 comprising some beautiful examples of Hippurites, Spherulites, &c. 

 Among these is a fine specimen from Mr. Dixon's collection, of a species 

 discovered by me in the chalk of Sussex, and named Spherulites Mor- 

 toni. 1 There are likewise fossil Balani, Serpula, &c. but their arrange- 

 ment is only provisional. 



Fossil Jaw of a Whale, from the Elephant-bed, Brighton Cliff. 

 There were formerly in this room several portions of the left ramus of 

 the lower jaw of a Whale, discovered in the ancient shingle-bed asso- 

 ciated with bones of Elephants, in the cliff to the East of Brighton. 2 



CHAPTER VI. PART II. 

 FOSSIL MAMMALIA OF THE SEWALIK HILLS. 



PALEONTOLOGY OF THE SEWALIK HILLS. Wall-cases A. and B. 

 The splendid collection of fossil bones in the Cases before us, is almost 

 wholly the result of the researches of Major Proby Cautley and Dr. 

 Falconer, in the tertiary deposits of the Sub-Himalayas or Sewalik 3 

 range, which skirts the southern base of the Himalayas, and attains an 

 altitude of from one to three thousand feet above the level of the sea. 

 The strata in which these remains were found consist of concretionary 

 grit, conglomerate, sandstone, and loam, and are spread over the 

 flanks of the hills, and extend about 200 miles in length, with an 

 average breadth of about 7 miles, and dip to the north at an angle of 

 from 20 to 30. Wherever gullies and fissures, or water-courses, 

 exposed sections of the beds, abundance of fossil bones were met with. 

 Lignite and trunks of dicotyledonous trees, and a few freshwater and 

 land shells, were found mingled with the animal remains ; and some 

 vestiges of a species of fluviatile fish related to the recent Silurus. The 

 bones in the sandstone and conglomerate are very much in the condi- 

 tion of those of the reptiles in the Wealden grit, and are as difficult to 

 clear from the rock, as I had personal experience in a fine collection 

 sent to me in 1836, from Suharunpoor, by Major Cautley ; and I can, there- 

 fore, duly appreciate the labour and skill bestowed on the specimens in 

 the British Museum, by Mr. James Dew, by whom these interesting fos- 

 sils were developed. 



1 " Medals of Creation," p. 430, Lign. 98. 



2 See "Medals of Creation," p. 824. 



3 " Sewalik, a corruption of Siva-wala, a name given to the tract oil 

 mountains between the Jumna and the Ganges." Major Cautley. 



