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(there were sugar-cane fields and a tank partly in the way), from th 

 darzi's house. Some people who were in their fields not far off searched 

 for it, and found it buried about a cubit deep in the mud. It was not hot 

 when they found it. 



The general account is that the day was still. There was a break in 

 the rains at the time, and except for a few not heavy clouds to the south 

 and west, the sky was bright and clear. It was useless attempting to get 

 any estimate of the duration of time during which the whizzing sound was 

 heard. The crack is said to have been heard for 4 kos (about 8 miles) all 

 round. I was afraid this account is somewhat vague and useless, but it is 

 the best that can be got from the natives who were on the spot." 



Mr. Ltdekkeb exhibited the palate of a large anthropoid ape which 

 had lately been discovered by Mr. Theobald in the Siwaliks of the Punjab ; 

 and made the following remarks : 



The jaw was that of a female animal, as indicated by the small size of 

 the canine, and indicated an animal intermediate in size between the Orang 

 and the Gorilla. The molar teeth are of the form which is common to man 

 and the living anthropoid apes ; the false molars are, however, much narrower 

 than in any of the latter, and are indeed relatively narrower than in man ; 

 the small size of the last molar and of the incisor are also characters in 

 which the jaw has a human character. Of the living apes the Chimpanzee 

 makes the nearest approach to the fossil, though the premolars are much 

 wider in that species. The straight line of the molars, the relatively larger 

 canine, and the diastema are quadrumanous characters. 



The specimen is of great interest as it is the first of the large anthro- 

 ■poid apes discovered in India ; it seems to afford evidence of a connec- 

 tion of Western Africa, the land of the Gorilla and Chimpanzee, on the one 

 hand, and of Sumatra and Borneo the home of the Orang, on the other, 

 with Northern India. The specimen will shortly be described and figured 

 in the " Records" of the Geological Survey. 



Dr. Ra'jendkala'la Mitra exhibited a new silver coin which he had 

 received for identification from Mr. H. Rivett-Carnac. The coin was in a 

 fair state of preservation, and weighed 3-1 grains, or a little over half an 

 obelus. Its periphery was irregular, but the inscription on the exergue, of 



the reverse, was complete. The obverse of 

 the coin bore a head of the Shah type 

 in profile, facing the left ; and the reverse, a 

 peacock with out-stretched wings and ex- 

 panded tail, as common in the peacock coins 

 of Kumara Gupta. The peacock, according 



