QUADRUMANA. 7 



from side to side, which is also the case with the hind- 

 most fossil grinder, as is illustrated in the cuts. As, 

 moreover, the two fossil molars bore the same proportions 

 to one another as the corresponding teeth from the same 

 jaw of the recent Macacque bear to each other, it was 

 reasonable to conclude that the two fossils appertained 

 to the same extinct species of Macacus. 



The evidence on which the fossil Monkey in the Eocene 

 strata of England has been determined, is of the same kind 

 as that which has brought to light the former existence of 

 another and apparently higher species of Quadrumane, in 

 the South of France, and is equally conclusive with that 

 by which Quadrumanous fossils have also been recognised 

 in India, and in South America. 



In all the instances, however, of the discovery of Anthro- 

 pomorphous fossils in foreign countries, the amount of the 

 evidence yielded by the fossils has been greater than that 

 which has hitherto been obtained from the tertiary strata 

 of Britain. Lieutenants Baker and Durand, who first an- 

 nounced the fact of a fossil quadrumane in 183 6,"* sup- 

 ported their highly important statement by the description 

 and figures of an almost entire right superior maxillary 

 bone, containing the five molar teeth and part of the 

 canine, and demonstrating the anterior aspect of the orbits, 

 which is so marked a peculiarity of the Quadrumana. This 

 rare and valuable fossil was obtained from the tertiary 

 strata of mixed calcareous sandstone and clay, in the Sub- 

 Himalayan hills near the Sutlej. 



In the year following, Captain Cautley and Dr. Falconer 

 discovered in the same formation of the Sub-Himalayan 

 district, a considerable portion of the lower jaw, with all 



* Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, for November 1836, p. 739, 

 pi. XLVII. 



