QUADRUMANA. 307 



[The following is an extract from a letter addressed by Mr. 

 Prinsep to Dr. Falconer on April 7tli, 1837: — ' I have not 

 only read your reasoning with attention, but have conferred 

 with the best authorities here, and with the best of all, viz. 

 the Orang-outang himself in our Museum, anent the quadru- 

 manous canine tooth. The result is a firm conviction that 

 you are right. Indeed the tooth fits so well on to the Orang 

 that it might be thought (and has been !) to belong to this 

 very individual.' 



Five years afterwards, also, in 1842, Dr. Falconer instituted 

 a close comparison between this tooth and the corresponding 

 tooth of three skulls of the Orang-outang, contained in the 

 Museum of the Asiatic Society in Calcutta, and found their 

 agreement so close that he conjectured that the extinct 

 Sewalik form had been a large ape allied to Pithecus satyrus. 

 See vol. ii. ' Memoir on Antiquity of Man.' — Ed,] 



rV. — On Additional Quadkumanous Eemains prom the 

 Tertiary Deposits op the Sewalik Hills.' 



BY H. FALCONER, M.D. 



Last November we forwarded to Mr, Lonsdale for his ac- 

 ceptance a fossil astragalus of a quadrumanous animal, 

 which we requested he would do us the favour of submitting 

 to the Greological Society, along with a descriptive notice 

 which accompanied the specimen. We intimated that Lieut. 

 Baker, of the Bengal Engineers, had discovered a large por- 

 tion of the face, comprising the series of molars, of a much 

 larger species, also from the Sewalik hills ; establishing the 

 contemporaneous existence of at least two species of Quad- 

 rumana, along with both extinct and recent mammiferous 

 genera, such as the Camel, Anoplotherium and Sivatherium, 

 and also some existing species of Crocodiles. We expressed 

 the hope that we should soon come to the possession of more 

 quadrumanous remains from the tract which has hitherto 

 yielded us so rich a harvest. This anticipation has already 

 been realized. 



In the ' Journal of the Asiatic Society ' for May, 1837, we 

 have figured and described several additional remains con- 

 taining teeth, and one of them a nearly complete lower 

 jaw, of fossil Quadrumana from the Sewalik hills. In a 

 postscript to the paper we have noticed a remarkable frag- 

 ment consisting of a detached canine, which we refer 



' This paper was written in 1837, but I Geological Society, and is now for the 

 was never sent, as intended, to the | first time published. — [Ed.] 



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