448 SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES. 



measures, containing this " lacnstrine " limestone, pass upwards 

 conformably into the Lower New Red Sand-stone of the central 

 counties. (See Proceedings Geol. Soc. V. i. p. 472.) The chief 

 localities of the Shropshire limestone are Pontesbury, Uffington, 

 liC Botwood, and Tasley. 



Beds of limestone, occupying a similar geological position, and 

 containing the same organic remains, (some of which belong to the 

 well known deposite at Burdie House, near Edinburgh,) have more 

 recently been recognised at Ardwick, near Manchester; these beds 

 were identified with those of Shropshire, by Professor Philips 

 (Brit. Assoc. Adv. of Science, 1836,) and have also been described 

 by Mr. Williamson, Phil. Mag. October, 1836. 



P. 64, Note, and 369, Aote. The Coal of Blickeberg, in 

 Nassau, respecting which various opinions have been entertained, 

 some referring it to the Green sand, and others to the Oolite series, 

 has been determined by Prof. Hoffmann to belong to the Wealden 

 Fresh-water formation. 



See Roemer's Versteinerungen des Norddeutschen Oolithen 

 Gebirges. Hanover, 1836. 



P. 75. An account has recendy been received from India of 

 the discovery of an unknown and very curious fossil ruminating 

 animal, nearly as large as an Elephant, which supplies a new 

 and important link in the Order of Mammalia, between the 

 Ruminantia and Pachydermata. A detailed description of this 

 animal has been published by Dr. Falconer and Captain Cautley, 

 who have given it the name of Sivatherium, from the Sivalic or 

 Sub-Himalayan range of hills in which it was found, between 

 the Jumna and the Ganges. In size it exceeded the largest 

 Rhinoceros. The head has been discovered nearly entire. The 

 front of the skull is remarkably wide, and retains the bony cores 

 of two short thick and straight horns, similar in position to those 

 of the four horned Antelope of Ilindostan. Tiie nasal bones are 

 salient in a degree without example among Ruminants, exceeding 

 in this respect those of the Rhinoceros, Tapir, and Palajotherium, 

 the only herbivorous animals that have this sort of structure. 

 Hence there is no doubt that the Sivatherium was invested with a 



