180 Catalogue of a Second Collection of Fossil Bones [March, 



nature have however been made above, of which I have been apprised 

 in my private correspondence with Seharanpur. 



Lieutenant Durand has just dug out a nearly perfect head of a 

 Pal&otherium, from the vicinity of the spot whence Captain Cautley 

 had previously extracted the Anoplotherium, of Cuvier. The Dadupur 

 museum possesses a fragment " of the lower jaw of a huge new animal : 

 the teeth not sufficiently perfect to determine its nature : it is probably 

 of some grand new pachydermatous animal, equalling the elephant in 

 size." Both the rhinoceros and the camel have characters of indubit- 

 able variation from known species. Of both these, notices are now in 

 preparation. The acquisition of fossil birds was noticed at the meeting 

 of March : Dr. Falconer supposes them to be bones of large Grallce. 

 This is, as he says, a fair test of the justice he and his fellow labourers 

 are doing to the enquiry : it is not every museum in Europe that has 

 fossil birds to shew ! A note this moment received announces the ac- 

 quisition of " a superb specimen of gigantic size of an unknown 

 species of crocodile : it forms an intermediate section in the genus be- 

 tween the true crocodile or magar, and the leptorynchus or gharidL 

 The muzzle is cylindrical, as in the latter, but greatly shorter ; and the 

 teeth are thick and shorter, as in the magar : they protrude in relief 

 above the jaw three inches, and are 1 inch and 2 lines in diameter !" 

 There is also in Col. Colvin's collection a Saurian head, apparently new. 



I have ventured to alter the numbering of the catalogue, to save 

 repetition, by bringing bones of the same animals together, the original 

 having been written out by Lieutenant Baker just in the order 

 they came to hand. It will be observed, that great pains have been 

 taken to unite together with cement specimens which were broken in 

 extraction, and in clearing them from matrix. The necessity of the 

 latter operation will be acknowledged on perusal of the following ex- 

 tract from Colonel Colvin's note to me of the 4th October last. 

 " The quantity I found collected here on my return, and what had to be 

 brought in proved to be so great, that in the matrix they would have 

 loaded a boat ; during the rains, therefore, I employed a number of 

 people to clear them, and though a vast number have thus been rejected 

 as superfluous, or too mutilated to be useful, still a great deal has been 

 packed that might perhaps have well been left behind, had I not feared 

 to attempt a selection." The same letter adds : — 



"I have been unfortunate in not meeting with specimens of teeth of 



the Sivatherium, or complete heads of the hog. I had one lower end 



of the radius of what appeared to be the camel, but as a few specimens 



also deemed " camel" had come into the Dadupur museum*, I made 



* Since certified by the discovery of an entire Lead. 



