1834.] from the Omar Nadi, near Narsinhpur. 399 



museum, however, the head of a femur from the Pyrenees measuring' 8.6 

 inches in diameter, indicating an individual of 14 feet 8 inches according 

 to Cuvxer : a tete inferieure from the Bog belonging to an animal of 

 15 feet : and another from Montserrat of the same dimensions. 



All of these support the measurement we have assumed of about 1 5 

 feet for our specimen, and prove it to be certainly one of the most 

 complete, as well as one of the largest remains of this magnificent 

 quadruped of which even the museums of Europe can boast. 



None of the animal matter of these bones remains : it is replaced 

 entirely by carbonate of lime, not by silex as was the case with the 

 specimen of imbedded bone from Brimhan Ghat. In the hollow interior 

 of the femur, long interwoven and pendent stalactites of calcareous 

 matter have been deposited, which shew that the bone must have been 

 incased in the rock in nearly a perpendicular position ; it is also remark- 

 able that there are two series of these fibrous stalactites forming a 

 considerable angle with one another, as if the position of the mass had 

 been at one period altered. Towards the ends of the bones the cavity 

 is entirely filled with the calcareous deposit. 



Plate XXIV. represents different views of the two fossil femora in 

 their relative proportion to the modern bone. 



References to the Plate. 

 Fig. 1. Modern femur of a young elephant of 9 feet high. 

 Fig. 2. View of the lower end of ditto, to shew the separation between the 



condyles. 

 Fig. 3- Head of the left femur of the fossil species, broken off towards the shaft, 



but originally found united with 

 Fig. 4. The lower extremity of the same bone. 

 Fig. 5. I s a portion of the shaft of the same bone at the narrowest part : the 



stalactitic formation in the interior is partially visible at the lower extremity. 

 Fig. 6. End view of fig. 4, to shew the conformation of the condyles united, or 



meeting, as described in Cuvier's Ossemens Fossiles. 

 Figs. 7, 8. are from Cuvier's Plate in Oss. Foss. vol. i. to shew their accordance 



with the above. 7, the fossil; and 8, the existing, species. 

 Figs. 9, and 10, are the same fragments of the right fossil femur, viewed on the 



inside. They are in as perfect a state as the left femur, excepting that the 



epiphysis of the ball of the thigh is detached and lost. Its place is shewn by 



a dotted line. 

 Fig. 12. Is a petrified bone of still larger dimensions than the preceding, but not 



80 well preserved. It seems from the curved depression at h', and the rudiments 



of condyles at /', g', to be the lower end of a femur. This fragment weighs 



1£ mans, and it is nearly one-fourth larger thanks. 4 and 10 ; figs. 12, 13. 



Fossil bvffalo. 

 With regard to the fossil skull, supposed by Dr. Spilsbury to be 

 that of a buffalo, from Hoshangdbdd, the same good fortune has in 

 this instance also attended his discovery : for as the condyles of the 



