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UNDER THE AUSPICES OF H. M. GOVERNMENT, AND OP THE HON. THE 

 COURT OF DIRECTORS OP THE EAST INDIA COMPANY. 



FAUNA AWTTIQUA SIVALENSIS, 



The Fossil Zoology of the Sewalik Hills, in the Nortli of 

 India. By Hugh Falconer, M.D., F.R S., F.L.S., F.G.S., Member 

 of the Asiatic Society of Benu^al, and of the Royal Asiatic Society or 

 tlie Bengal Medical Service, and late Superintendent of the H. R. I.C. 

 Botanic Garden at Saharunpoor : and Proby T. Cautley, F.G.S., 

 Major in the Bcncal Artillery, Member of the Asiatic Society of 

 Bengal, &c. Edited by Hugh Falconer. 



Plnn of PuhUcafion. — The work will appear in about Twelve Parts, to 

 be published at intervals of four months ; each Part containing from Twelve 

 to Fifteen folio Plates. The descriptive Letterpress will be printed in 

 roval octavo. Price of each Part, one Guinea. — Part I. contains 

 Proboscidea. — Parts II. and III., containing the continuation of 

 Proboscidea, will be published shortly. Prospectuses of the Work 

 may be obtained of the Publishers. 



" A work of immense labour and research Nothing has ever appeared in 



lithography in this country at all comparable to these plates ; and as regards the repre- 

 sentations of minute osseous texture, by Mr. Ford, they are perhaps the most perfect 

 that have yet been produced in any country. . . . The work has commenced with the 

 Elephant group, in which the authors say ' is most signally displayed the numerical rich- 

 ness of forms which characterises the Fossil Fauna of India;' and the first chapter 

 relates to the Proboscidea — Elephant and Mastodon. The aulliors have not restricted 

 themselves to a description of the Sewalik I'ossil forms, but they propose to trace the 

 alfmities, and institute an arrangement of all the well-determined species in the family. 

 They give a brief historical sketch of the leading opinions which have been entertained 

 by palfeontologists respecting the relations of the Mastodon and Elephant to each other, 

 and of the successive steps in the discovery of new forms which have led to the modifica- 

 tions of these opinions. They stale that the results to which they themselves have been 

 conducted, lead them to dilTer on certain points from the opinions most commonly enter- 

 tained at the present day, respecting the fossil species of Elephant and Mastodon." — 

 .'Ji/dress of the President of the Geological Society of London, 20lh Feb. 1846. 



Works recently Published and in progress under the authority 

 of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. 



* * In order to secure to science the full advantage of Discoveries in IVafural 

 History, the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty s Treasury have been pleased to 

 make a liberal grant of money towards defraying part of the capenses of the fol- 

 lowing important publications. They have, in consequence, been undertaken on 

 a scale luorthy of the high patronage thus received, and are offered to the public 

 at a viiich lower price than would otherwise have been possible. 



I. 

 ILItUSTRATSOMS OP THE ZOOLiOGY OF SOUTH 



AFRICA. 



Comprising all the new species of Quadrupeds, Birds, Reptiles, and 

 Fishes, obtained during the Expedition fitted out by " The Cape of Good 

 Hope Association for exploring Central Africa," in the years 1834, 1835, 

 and 1836, with Letterpress Descriptions, and a Summary of African 

 Zoology. By Andrew Smith, M.D., Surgeon to the Forces, and 

 Director of the Expedition. In Royal Quarto Parts, price \Qs. and 12s. 

 each, containing on an average ten beautifully coloured Engravings, with 

 descriptive Letterpress. The whole of the Plates are engraved in the 

 highest style of art, from the Original Drawings taken expressly for this 

 Work, and beautifully coloured after nature. Twenty-four Parts are 

 now published. 



