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Revised Notes on Fossils, discovered by Messrs. Kaye and 

 Cunliffe, Madras Civil Service at Seedrapett. By J. 

 M'Clelland. 



After I had written, and partly printed, a notice of some 

 of these remains with which I was favoured by Mr. Cunliffe, 

 I received an intimation from Mr. Kaye, of his intention of 

 forwarding a more perfect and complete set of specimens. 

 These were soon after received, and shewed clearly, that 

 what I had taken for teeth in Mr. Cunliffe's collection, (owing 

 to the specimens being imperfect and worn,) were really, as 

 described by their discoverers in the Madras Journal of 

 Science, No. 11, 1840, zoophytes ox corals. The specimens 

 further prove, also, to have been correctly referred by their 

 discoverers to that division of zoophytes named Turbinalia. 

 Before I became aware of this from an inspection of a spe- 

 cimen in Mr. Kaye's collection, in which the external striae 

 on the surface are sufficiently perfect, the notes which had 

 been prepared from Mr. Cunliffe's specimens were printed 

 and circulated ; and not desiring to see any thing so errone- 

 ous in these pages, it appeared better to cancel the portion, 

 of my former notes relating to these fossils. Plate vh. is 

 therefore to be regarded as exhibiting fossil Turbinalia of 

 Seedrapett. Plate viii. fig. 1, 2, represents sections of the 

 fossil, fig. 1. a longitudinal section magnified, a. the base, b. 

 the apex ; Fig. 2 is half a transverse section from c. to d. 



fig. 1 ; Fig. 3 is the section of Turbinalia from Bathgate, 



for which I am indebted to J. W. Grant, Esq. ; it is here re- 

 presented to shew the difference between the English and 

 the Indian fossil. 



The subject is of so much importance, that I would not have 

 referred to it until better prepared than at present, were it 

 not to correct an error. I trust, however, shortly to have 

 leisure to resume the examination of the very interesting 

 collection which has been entrusted to me for the purpose 

 by Mr. Kaye. In the mean time, the following extract 

 of a letter from Mr. Kaye on this subject, accompanied with 

 four pages of drawings illustrative of these fossils, will 

 be interesting. 



