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most essential parts has been taken away. Now such fossil or burnt bones can no 

 more be regarded as bone, than charcoal can be considered as the vegetable of 

 which it retains the figure and fibrous structure. Bones which keep their figure 

 after combustion, resemble charcoal made from vegetables replete with fibre; and 

 cartilaginous bones which lose their shape by the same cause, may be compared to 

 succulent plants which are reduced in bulk and shape in a similar manner. 



From these last experiments, I much question if bodies consisting of phosphate 

 of lime, like bones, have concurred materially to form strata of limestone or 

 chalk; for it appears to be improbable that phosphate is converted into carbonate 

 of lime, after these bodies have become extraneous fossils. The destruction or 

 decomposition of the cartilaginous parts of teeth and bones in a fossil state, must 

 have been the work of a very long period of time, unless accelerated by the action 

 of some mineral principle; for after having, in the usual manner, steeped in 

 muriatic acid the os humeri of a man brought from Hythe, in Kent, and said to 

 have been taken from a Saxon tomb, I found the remaining cartilage nearly as 

 complete as that of a recent bone. The difficult destructibility of substances of a 

 somewhat similar nature, appears also from the mining implements formed of horn, 

 which are not unfrequently found in excavations of high antiquity. 



XIX. A Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts presented to the Royal Society by Sir 

 PVm. and Lady Jones., By Charles Wilkins, Esq., F. R. S. p. 335. 



Continued from page 430 of this vol. 

 SANSCRITA. 



57. Gita and Dharmanusasana. Two extracts from the Maha-bharata, with beautiful drawings 3 

 written in the Devanagari character. S. W. J. 



58. Raghuvansa. The Children of the Sun, a poem, by Calidas. Bengal character. S. W. J. 

 59- Prabodha Chandrodaya. The Rising Moon of Knowledge, a drama, by Cesava Misra. Bengal 



character. S. W. J. 



CHINESE. 



60. Con Fu Tsu. The works of Confucius, vol. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. S. W. J.* 



61. Tahia Su Shuw. A commentary. S. W. J. 



62. Shung Lon Su Shuw. A commentary. S. W. J. 



63. Hor Lon Su Shuw. A commentary. S. W. J. 



64. Shung Morng Su Shuw. A commentary. S. W. J. 



65. Hor. Morng. Su Shuw. A commentary. S. W. J. 



66. Shi Kin. A book of Chinese odes. L r . J. 



67. Lon Yu. A grammar of the Chinese Language. \J. J. 



68. A dictionary. Chinese and Latin. I/. J. 



PERSIAN. 



69. Zafar Nameh. A most elegant history of Taimur ; written in the Niskh character. I/. J. 



70. Towarikh i Gujarat. A history of the province of Guzerat. I/. J. 



71. Tarikh i Bahadershahi. A. history of the Emperor Bahader Shah. U. J. 



72. Tarikh i Jenahcusha. The history of Nadir Shah, by Mirza Mahadi Khan. I/. J. 



73. Narrative of the proceedings of Scindia, and the confederates. U. J. 



74. Jehangir Nameh. The history of Jehangir Shah. I/. J. 



* From No. 60 to 67, inclusive, are printed from blocks. No. 68 is manuscript. — Orig. 



4 c 2 



