PREFACE. XI 



self, from letters addressed by him to his former fellow- 

 students, the Rev. Dr. Gordon of Birnie, and the Rev. 

 Duncan Campbell of Pentridge Rectory, to the late 

 Professor Jameson of Edinburgh, and to his intimate 

 friends Sir Proby Cautley, Mr. Arthur Grote, Colonel 

 Wood, and M. Ed. Lartet, which have been kindly en- 

 trusted to me for the purpose, as well as from other 

 sources. It might have been possible to extend it ; but 

 I have preferred incorporating the scientific information, 

 which I have been enabled to extract from Dr. Fal- 

 coner's correspondence, in the form of foot-notes, with 

 the memoir to which in each case it refers. Throughout 

 the work, the orthography of Indian names, on which 

 scarcely two writers agree, is what was adopted by Dr. 

 Falconer himself; while that of the specific names of 

 fossils, as was Falconer's habit, has been rendered in ac- 

 cordance with Bronn's ' Nomenclator Palseontologicus.' 



The admirable lithographs which illustrate the work 

 have been executed by Mr. Joseph Dinkel, and have 

 been partly copied from figures in the ' Fauna Antiqua 

 Sivalensis,' or from original drawings belonging to Dr. 

 Falconer, and partly drawn from the original specimens 

 in the British Museum or in other collections. The 

 Rev. John Gunn of Irstead, with his wonted readiness 

 to render his valuable collection available for the advance- 

 ment of science, has forwarded several of his specimens 

 to be figured. 



To the Editor of these volumes it is a matter of regret 

 that the work which he has now completed has not been 

 executed by some one more competent to deal with the 

 subjects of which they treat, and less liable to pro- 

 fessional interruptions. But as the object has been to 

 place the results of Dr. Falconer's labours before the 



