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■wanting, of the profound knowledge and accurate judgnnent for which 

 he was so justly distinguished. But while Ave fully acknowledge the 

 high claims of Professor Edward Forbes to stand first in the ranks of 

 those who have labored to elucidate the Geology of this part of India, 

 it is due to Messrs. Kaye and Cunliffe to state, that to their spontaneous 

 ardour in the cause of science and to their labors prosecuted as a 

 relaxation in the midst of onerous official duties, we are indebted for the 

 material from which Professor Forbes's conclusions were drawn. The 

 former of these gentlemen did not live to see the first results of his 

 labors given to the world. He died while the report of Professor 

 Forbes was passing through the press : and we can only regret with the 

 Officers of the Society, of which he was so promising a member, that 

 Indian science was deprived thus early of one who had shown so much 

 energy in its advancement. 



Mr. Cunhffe continued, as we have stated, to prosecute his researches 

 in the Trichinopoly district, (until, by change of residence, he was 

 removed from the scene of his labors,) and amassed a most valuable 

 collection of fossil remains from a locality till then unexplored, which he 

 liberally placed at the disposal of the Survey, and the description of which 

 was only postponed, because it was then in contemplation to undertake 

 the systematic examination of the district of which the present memoir is 

 the result. The probable importance of such a survey and the promis- 

 ing richness of the fauna, had been further proved by the continued 

 labors of Mr. CunliiFe, Dr. Muzzy, and those other gentlemen, whose 

 names we have above recorded, and although it cannot be doubted that 

 the fossil riches of the country, more especially of the Trichinopoly 

 district, have been by no means exhausted, it is hoped that the present 

 description may place the knowledge of the geological structm-e of the 

 country on such a footing, that all future discoveries may be assigned 

 readily to their proper place. 



Before closing the present sketch, I would say a few words on a group 



