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FOSSIL EEMAINS FROM AVA. 



XXIV. N'OTE ON CERTAIN" SPECIMET^S OE 

 ANIMAL EEMAINS FEOM AVA.' 



Pkesented bt James Calder, Esq., V.P., to the Museum 

 OF THE Asiatic Society. 



BY HUGH FALCONER, M.D. 



These specimens of Ava fossils were procured, with some 

 difficulty, from the neighboiu-hood of Prome, where the col- 

 lection by Dr. Crawfurd had been previously made. We may 

 hope ere long to have a richer assortment, through the 

 exertions of Major Burney ; but in the meantime it may be 

 interesting to the Society to know what individual fossils of 

 the number have been identified with those taken hence by 

 Dr. Crawfurd. 



It must be premised that the following attempt at dis- 

 criminating the animals to which the fossil bones belonged 

 is submitted to the Society with great diffidence, and is con- 

 fessedly imperfect. Had the means of comj)arison been more 

 extensive, an accurate list might have been made out ; but 

 no recourse could be had to the skeletons of any analogues, 

 and the only available sources of information were Cuvier's 

 ' Ossemens Fossiles,' and Memoirs in the Geological ' Trans- 

 actions,' by Buckland and Cliffc. 



Further, this note does not profess to contain anything 

 original, or to make any addition to the list of fossils from 

 Ava afready discovered. 



The remains are confined to quadrupeds. There are no 

 marine nor freshwater shells, nor any specimen of the 

 deposit in which the remains are found ; but it is believed to 

 be the same diluvial formation in which the remains of 

 mammalia are found in Europe and America. 



The specimens consist of fragmental portions of bone; 

 many of them coloured with iron. The fragments are mostly 

 angular, and few of them bear marks of attrition. 



' This note -was communicated to the ings in Science,' vol. iii. p. 167, Calcutta. 



Asiatic Society, on April 20tli, 1831, Although fragmentary, it is here repro- 



soon after Dr. Falconer's arrival in dueed, as it has been quoted by Kaup 



India, and was published in the ' Glean- and other authorities. — [Ed.] 



