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These shells are described in a small work by Professor Fitton, on the Geology 

 of Hastings ; he deduces from their presence the identity in time of this forma- 

 tion and the chalk : the collection contains the following shells : 



Sphoera corrugata, Greensand, 



Cyprina angulata, do. 



Ostrea , do. 



Terebratula sella, do. 



elegans, do. 



Nucula pectinata, do. 



ovalis, do. 



Serpula , do. 



Inoceramus sulcatus, Gault. 



concentricus, do. 



Solarium do. 



Nautica umbilicata, do. 



Ammonites , do. 



Pentaerinites, do. 



Belemnites, do. 



Echinus anancbites, (chalk.) 

 spatangus, (gravel.) 



A letter was read from Major Burney, Resident at the Burmese Court 

 dated Rangoon, June 17th, accompanying an extensive collection of fossil 

 bones from Yenang-young and the neighbouring hills in Ava, for the in- 

 spection and examination of the members of the Asiatic Society. Also a 

 few in a separate package obtained by Captain McLeod, during his Mis- 

 sion up the Khyendwen river, (a fossil elephant's jaw and teeth.) 



Major Burney describes the mode in which this magnificent collection had 

 been made by the natives at his instigation. " Every Burman, from the Governor 

 to the peasant, strove to make the search after fossils a good speculation, and thev 

 were brought to me one by one to secure a more advantageous bargain. There was 

 no digging for them : they were found lying on the very surface of the ground, 

 sometimes only partially covered by the peculiar sandy and gravelly soil of that 

 part of the country. Some of the fossil teeth will be observed to be injured : 

 this proceeds from small bits having been chipped off by the Burmese to be used 

 as medicine, — to be ground down with water and taken for the gravel." 



The general nature of the Ava fossils has been so ably treated of in Professor 

 Buckland's memoir on the collection taken home by Mr. Crawfurd that no- 

 thing is wanting on this head : almost all the individuals noted by him may be 

 recognized in the present series : which contains on a rough examination the fol- 

 lowing species : 



2 jaws and several teeth of the fossil elephant. 



7 jaws and teeth of mastodon, hippopotamus, &c. 



8 fragments of alligators' jaws. 

 4 7 vertebrae of saurian reptiles. 



170 fragments of the emys and trionyx shell. 



1 humerus of the rhinoceros, and nearly 

 200 unclassified fragments of bone. 

 The Secretary noticed the safe arrival of the gigantic remains of the 

 fossil elephant discovered by Dr. Spilsbuky in the banks of the Omar Nadi 

 near Narsinghpur. 



They had been dispatched from Jabalpur across the country to Benares, where 

 Dr. Row had kindly taken charge of them until an opportunity offered for their 

 secure conveyance to Calcutta under charge of Captain Sayers. The five frag- 

 ments, consisting of the extremities of two fossil femurs of a mammoth and the head of 

 a buffalo, were placed on the table side by side of modern skeletons of the same nature, 

 to exhibit the contrast more forcibly. Extracts from Dr. Spilsbury's letters, 

 and a note by the Secretary were read : — also a memoir by Dr. Spilsbury on a 

 geological section which he has recently had an opportunity of making across the 



