44. The Limestone Caves of Burma and the Malay 
eninsula.* 
By N. ANNANDALE, D.Sc., F.A.S.B.; J. Cogarn Brown, 
M.Sc., F.G.S.; and F. H. Gravecy, M.Sc. 
(Plates XVIII - XXII.) 
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INTRODUCTION vse i is oo” 39] 
Part I. Geology of the Cave-bearing Limestones of 
Burma and the Malay Peninsula. J. Coggin Brown 396 
Part II. Fauna of the Limestone Caves of Burma 
and the Malay Peninsula. N. Annandale and F. H. 
avely 
Gr - se ae ». 402 
APPENDIX. Notes on clay tablets. B. B. Bidyabinod 
and C. Duroiselle _ ae 4 va le 
INTRODUCTION. 
The caves of the Oriental Region do not possess the 
interest of those of some parts of Europe and America. As a 
rule they are not of vast size or impressive interior; few or 
none of them contain streams or lakes; their fauna does not 
have not, so far as we know, been the home of races whose 
civilization is extinct. It is, however, no less necessary to study 
what is ordinary than what is striking; indeed, the former is in 
many cases the more important from a scientific point of view. 
Comparatively little attention has yet been directed to the 
Structure and fauna of the limestone caves of Burma and the 
adjacent countries, and it has seemed worth while, if only in 
order to stimulate further study, to gather together the scat- 
tered and often somewhat inaccessible references in literature, 
and to add the results, imperfect as they are, of our own 
several investigations in the Shan States, Tenasserim, the 
Siamese and the Federated Malay States. 
Although the caves are scattered over an area of great 
extent—it extends from western China in the north to Borneo 
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* Published by permission of the Trustees of the Indian Museum and 
of the Director of the Geological Survey of India. 
