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  from 
  the 
  same 
  place, 
  which 
  I 
  have 
  no 
  doubt 
  Prof. 
  Huxley 
  will 
  think 
  

   worthy 
  of 
  study. 
  I 
  shall 
  endeavour 
  to 
  send 
  them 
  to 
  him, 
  if 
  I 
  can 
  

   find 
  an 
  opportunity 
  ; 
  if 
  not, 
  I 
  shall 
  forward 
  to 
  him 
  drawings. 
  In 
  

   the 
  meantime 
  I 
  shall 
  give 
  you 
  a 
  brief 
  account 
  of 
  them. 
  

  

  " 
  The 
  specimens 
  are 
  all 
  found 
  in 
  connexion 
  with 
  red 
  clay 
  strata, 
  

   and 
  generally 
  on 
  the 
  surface. 
  The 
  localities 
  are 
  three. 
  On 
  W.S.W. 
  

   Ceratodus-teeth 
  are 
  met 
  with, 
  along 
  with 
  pitted 
  and 
  grooved 
  scales. 
  

   On 
  S. 
  are 
  found 
  the 
  jaws 
  with 
  numerous 
  conical 
  teeth, 
  such 
  as 
  

   have 
  already 
  been 
  sent 
  to 
  London. 
  ISear 
  those 
  jaws, 
  also, 
  have 
  

   been 
  discovered 
  scutes, 
  much 
  the 
  same 
  as 
  above, 
  and 
  vertebra?. 
  Of 
  

   the 
  vertebrae 
  some 
  appear 
  to 
  be 
  dorsal 
  and 
  others 
  caudal. 
  Besides 
  

   these 
  are 
  two 
  phalanges, 
  which 
  seem 
  to 
  fit 
  into 
  each 
  other 
  ; 
  and 
  

   other 
  bones, 
  the 
  position 
  of 
  which 
  it 
  is 
  difficult 
  for 
  me 
  to 
  indicate. 
  

   I 
  think, 
  among 
  the 
  specimens 
  that 
  Dr. 
  Oldham 
  left 
  at 
  the 
  Geol. 
  Mu- 
  

   seum 
  was 
  a 
  sharp 
  bone, 
  which 
  may 
  have 
  belonged 
  to 
  the 
  upper 
  jaw, 
  

   and 
  formed 
  the 
  channel 
  in 
  the 
  lower. 
  Another 
  such 
  sharp 
  bone 
  has 
  

   been 
  found 
  with 
  something 
  like 
  rudimentary 
  teeth 
  along 
  the 
  edge. 
  

   On 
  the 
  same 
  (south) 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  village, 
  and 
  quite 
  near 
  the 
  bones, 
  

   but 
  at 
  a 
  little 
  higher 
  level, 
  where 
  the 
  clay, 
  somewhat 
  sandy, 
  is 
  

   whitish, 
  were 
  collected 
  fragments 
  of 
  one 
  large 
  species 
  of 
  Unio, 
  and 
  

   more 
  complete 
  specimens 
  of 
  a 
  smaller 
  species. 
  

  

  " 
  These 
  two 
  sites 
  (W.S.W. 
  and 
  S.) 
  were 
  known 
  before. 
  This 
  year 
  

   I 
  sent 
  my 
  collector, 
  Yira, 
  again 
  to 
  Malecft, 
  where 
  he 
  discovered 
  

   fossils 
  on 
  the 
  north 
  side. 
  Among 
  these 
  were 
  vertebrae 
  much 
  shorter 
  

   than 
  those 
  from 
  the 
  south 
  side 
  ; 
  one 
  with 
  both 
  ends 
  pretty 
  equally 
  

   concave 
  ; 
  another 
  with 
  one 
  end 
  more 
  concave 
  than 
  the 
  other 
  ; 
  and 
  a 
  

   third 
  (the 
  smallest) 
  with 
  both 
  ends 
  somewhat 
  plane. 
  Here 
  also 
  

   were 
  scutes, 
  much 
  as 
  before, 
  but 
  only 
  one 
  bone 
  with 
  teeth 
  (jaw 
  or 
  

   palate?). 
  The 
  summit 
  is 
  furnished 
  with 
  rudimentary 
  sort 
  of 
  

   teeth 
  ; 
  from 
  that 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  slope 
  down, 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  which 
  there 
  

   is 
  a 
  row 
  of 
  thinly 
  set 
  conical 
  teeth, 
  resembling 
  those 
  in 
  the 
  jaws 
  

   from 
  the 
  south. 
  In 
  the 
  immediate 
  neighbourhood 
  were 
  picked 
  

   up 
  16 
  or 
  17 
  teeth, 
  like 
  those 
  of 
  Megalosaurits. 
  They 
  are 
  of 
  all 
  

   forms, 
  from 
  the 
  long- 
  conical 
  to 
  the 
  stout 
  lance-shaped. 
  You 
  

   may 
  remember 
  a 
  beautifully 
  serrated 
  tooth 
  found 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Rawes 
  

   at 
  Takli, 
  and 
  deposited 
  in 
  the 
  Geol. 
  Society's 
  Museum. 
  One 
  of 
  

   those 
  recently 
  found 
  bears 
  a 
  great 
  similarity 
  to 
  it, 
  only 
  the 
  Malecft 
  

   specimen 
  is 
  considerably 
  thicker. 
  It 
  is 
  strange 
  that 
  we 
  should 
  meet 
  

   with 
  at 
  Malec/i, 
  along 
  with 
  the 
  remains 
  of 
  Ceratodus, 
  a 
  tooth 
  so 
  like 
  

   one 
  from 
  the 
  ' 
  Inter-trappean 
  ' 
  : 
  but 
  the 
  strangeness 
  ends 
  not 
  here 
  : 
  

   one 
  of 
  the 
  conical 
  varieties 
  from 
  Malec/i 
  is, 
  I 
  should 
  say, 
  almost 
  

   exactly 
  like 
  a 
  tooth 
  found 
  along 
  with 
  Physa 
  Prinsepii 
  and 
  other 
  

   1 
  Inter-trappean 
  ' 
  shells 
  in 
  the 
  ' 
  Sub-trappean 
  ' 
  of 
  Phisdura. 
  I 
  do 
  not 
  

   know 
  whether 
  it 
  may 
  increase 
  the 
  wonder 
  to 
  add 
  that 
  in 
  a 
  nulla 
  at 
  

   MakseS, 
  which 
  cuts 
  through 
  strata 
  immediately 
  underlying 
  the 
  bed 
  

   with 
  Megalosaurus-like 
  teeth, 
  there 
  was 
  presented 
  in 
  position 
  an 
  

   abundance 
  of 
  the 
  smaller 
  species 
  of 
  Unio 
  mentioned 
  before. 
  I 
  cannot 
  

   assert 
  that 
  this 
  species 
  resembles 
  any 
  of 
  the 
  species 
  of 
  Unios 
  that 
  occur 
  

   in 
  the 
  ' 
  Inter-trappean.' 
  I 
  rather 
  think 
  it 
  is 
  a 
  new 
  species. 
  Still 
  

   it 
  is 
  as 
  modern-looking 
  as 
  any 
  I 
  have 
  described 
  in 
  my 
  paper 
  on 
  the 
  

   Eocene 
  Mollusks 
  of 
  Central 
  India. 
  

  

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