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these strata to those indicated by the specimens described by Mr. Cole- 

 brooke, in Vol.1, Part 1, second series of the Geological Transactions, 

 which had already established the existence of this formation in the N. E. 

 border of Bengal. 



Mr. Crawfurd states distinctly, that it is impossible to refer the situa- 

 tion of the bones, or the origin of the hills containing them, to any opera- 

 tions of the existing river : these hills are sixty feet above the level of its 

 highest flood ; the effect of its actual operations, he observes also, is dis- 

 tinctly visible in the shifting islands of mud and sand that abound along 

 the whole course of the river within this high-flood level, and in the great 

 alluvial delta that extends from a little below Prome to Rangoon and the 

 gulf of Martaban. 



The recent bones and recent wood which he observed to be stranded 

 on some of these islands, were not in a state of progress towards becom- 

 ing mineralized, but were falling rapidly to decay. 



The existence of so many animal remains analogous to those that occur 

 in the diluvium of Europe, in a matrix which so nearly resembles that 

 diluvium, and which so decidedly differs from the alluvium, and fresh- 

 water, and tertiary strata of the adjacent country, seems to authorize us 

 to refer this matrix to a similar diluvial deposit in the valley of the Irawadi, 

 reposing irregularly upon the tertiary and other stratified rocks, that form 

 the basis of that district. 



On the same evening, after the ordinary business of the Society had 

 been transacted, a special general meeting was held, when the President 

 having stated that the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury 

 had been pleased to transfer to this Society some of the apartments in 

 Somerset House: — 



It was resolved unanimously, That a Subscription be immediately 

 entered upon to defray the expense of the necessary repairs in the apart- 

 ments recently granted to the Society in Somerset House, and of the 

 removal thereto. 



May 2. — A letter was read from J. B. Pentland, Esq., addressed to 

 W. H. Fitton, M.D., P.G.S., respecting the fossil remains of some animals 

 from the N. E. border of Bengal. 



The authour has discovered amons the mutilated fragments of bones 



