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protodon and Merycopotamus ; several species of Bus and Hippohyus, 

 and of Equus and Hippoiherium ; the colossal ruminant Sivatherium, 

 together with fossil species of Camel, Giraife, Cervus, Antilope, 

 Capra, and new types of Bovidce ; Carnivora belonging to the new 

 genera Hycenarctos and Enhydriodon, and also to Drepanodon, Felis, 

 Hycena, Canis, Oulo, Lutra, &c. ; among the Aves, species of Ostrich 

 Cranes, &c. ; among the Reptilia, Monitors and Crocodiles of living 

 and extinct species, the enormous Tortoise, Colossochelys Atlas, with 

 numerous species of Emys and Trionyx ; and among fossil fish, 

 Cyprinidce and Siluridce. The general facies of the extinct fauna 

 exhibited a congregation of forms participating in European, African, 

 and Asiatic types. Of the mammalian remains all belonged to ex- 

 tinct species ; hut of the Eeptilia and freshwater Shells some of the 

 fossil species were identical with species now in existence on the 

 continent of India : and from this fact, more than thirty years ago. 

 Dr. Palconer was led to draw important inferences as to the antiquity 

 of the human race " *. 



Joint notices of these remarkable discoveries were sent in from 

 time to time and published in your ' Transactions.' Independently 

 of these. Sir Proby Cautley communicated to the Society separate 

 papers " On the Structure of the Sewalik HiUs, and the Organic 

 Eemains found in them," and " On the Finding of the Remains of a 

 Quadrumanous Animal in the Sewalik Hills," whilst several others 

 bearing on the same subject were published in the Journal of the 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal, and elsewhere. These researches were 

 continued by Sir Proby and Dr. Falconer during eight years with 

 indefatigable perseverance and at great expense ; in 1840 Sir Proby 

 sent this unrivaEed collection, which filled 214 cases, each weighing 

 about 4 cwt., to England. This collection was offered to our Society ; 

 but for want of room it had to be declined, and it was placed in 

 the British Museum. It was the intention of Messrs. Falconer and 

 Cautley to describe and Ulustrate the whole of their large collec- 

 tions in a magnificent work entitled ' Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis,' of 

 which 9 parts were published, but which, to the regret of the 

 scientific world, yet remains to be completed. 



In 1837 the Wollaston Medal was awarded in duplicate to Sir 

 Proby (then Captain) Cautley and Dr. Falconer " for their geolo- 

 gical researches and their discoveries in fossil geology in the sub- 

 Himalayan Mountains." Although an artillery and not an engineer 

 officer, Sir Proby 's abilities were so highly valued that he was ap- 



* ' Palaontological Memoirs ' of Hugli Falconer, Tol. i. p. 28. 



