NERBUDDA DISTRICT. 113 



carefully experimented and laboriously collected information, and Pro- 

 fessor Oldham's report (extracts from which will be found below) on 

 the subject seems to have exhausted the question, and sums up all 

 the information which we need possess preparatory to such experi- 

 ments on a large scale as commercial undertakings are likely to be 

 prefaced by, and which Colonel Presgrave has shown to be at least 

 practicable. 



Palceontological Papers. — In 1830 Colonel Sleeman discovered fossil 



bones in the Jubbulpur limestone breccia, and in 

 1830. Sleeman. - - 



1833/aJ Dr. Spilsbury sent to Calcutta some 



fossils from that locality, as well as from several places on the banks 



of the Nerbudda and its tributaries. 



In the same year Dr. Spry(6) sent down to Calcutta his first set of 



specimens of the fossil shells from the vicinity of 

 1833. Spry. J 



Sagur, and described in a paper to the Society the 



manner of occurrence of these shells, and of some silicified trunks of palm 



trees, which he states to have been found in the same bed with them. 



The bones procured from Colonel Sleeraan's locality, that is from the 

 limestone " bone-breccia" of Jubbulpur, were so imperfectly preserved 

 as to be found incapable of affording to Mr. Prinsep any evidence 

 sufficient to determine the animals to which they had belonged ; but 

 those sent . by Dr. Spilsbury from the Omar Nuddi, Segauni, Birman 

 ghat, and Hosungabad, were described as femora of an Elephant, skull of 

 Buffalo, &c. From the neighbourhood of Sagur and Jubbulpur, from 

 many of the above mentioned localities in the Nerbudda Valley, and from 

 several new sites discovered principally by Dr. Spilsbury, considerable 

 numbers of specimens of many kinds of organic remains were sent 

 down to Calcutta during the next few years. 



In 1834 Mr. Prinsep(c) enumerated a considerable variety of these 



(«) Jour. As. Soc. Bengal, Vol. 1, p. 456.— (ft) Ibid. Vol. II, p. 519.— (c) Ibid. 



Vol. Ill, p. 396. 



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