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An extract of a letter, dated 18th November, 1836, from Captain 
Cautley to Dr. Royle, was next read, permitting the announcement 
of a fact which had long been communicated to the latter, of the 
finding of the remains of a Quadrumanous animal: in the Sewaliks, 
or Sub-Himalayan range of mountains. ‘The animal must have 
been much larger than any existing one, and allied to Cuvier’s Cyn- 
ocephaline group. Captain Cautley also announced the discovery, 
by Major Colvin, of a specimen of the head of the Sivatherium ; in 
which, in conformity to the conjectures of Dr. Faleoner and Cap- 
tain C., in their paper for which the Wollaston medal was this year 
awarded, it is found that the animal had four horns; two in front, 
and two huge trifurcated ones behind. He considers the animal as 
allied to the Dicranocerine group of Major Hamilton Smith. 
A paper, by Messrs. Hamilton and Strickland, was then read, on 
a tertiary formation in the island of Cephalonia, near Lixouri, on 
the western shore of the Gulf of Argostoli. The parallel ridges 
composing it extend for two or three miles to the north and soath 
of Lixouri, sloping to the east, according to the dip of the strata, 
or from 45° to 55°, and presenting a succession of steep and sharp 
-escarpments towards the west. ‘The conformable beds are of great 
thickness, and are remarkable, as well for the great beauty and 
number of the fossils, as for the variety of beds through which these 
extend. The beds, of which sixteen are enumerated, may be class- 
ed under three principal heads: 1. The calcareoarenaceous. 2. 
The argillaceous. 3. Gypseous beds. The fossils belong to numer- 
ous genera, and many of the species are identical with those existing 
in the Mediterranean.—.4theneum, April and May, 1837. 
25. Professor Afzelius.—Professor Adam Afzelius, the Nestor of 
scientific men in Sweden, died at Upsal, on the 30th of last January, 
aged eighty-six years. He was the last pupil of Linneus, and was 
celebrated for his travels in Asia and Africa. His African Herba- 
rium, we believe, is now in the Banksian collection in the British 
Museum. - His younger brothers, John and Peter, the first devoted 
to chemistry, and the second to medicine, are both distinguished for 
their talents, and have, for nearly half a century, occupied chairs in 
the University of Upsal.— Atheneum, April, 1837. 
