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recognize a fossil at sight, a>nd to be careful in their extraction from the rock 

 when so situated : but so many have been found fallen down from their original 

 position, that many will likely be so now, and the wonder is that they have 

 not been before recognized and brought to notice through the natives in the 

 neighbourhood, who it would now appear have occasionally picked them up. The 

 space I have selected for the operations of my party is the portion of the hills 

 embraced between the embouchures of three mountain torrents, which united 

 form the Sombe river, lying about halfway between the Jamna and Nahun, to 

 the right and left of which are the hills from which the specimens already col- 

 lected have been brought. I may therefore expect to be successful, and though I 

 have not seen the outlets of these three heads of the Sombe, I may presume the 

 sections in the range of hills to be both deep and extersive from the floods which 

 pass down there in the rains. I intend when I have an opportunity to visit them, 

 and in the mean time have taken measures to have the localities of the specimens 

 attached to each as brought out. I expect to be able to despatch the first results 

 of my search from Delhi before three months are over. These fossils appear to me 

 to correspond with those found by Dr. Spilsbury, described in the Journal for 

 August. One lower end of a thigh bone is little less in breadth than that drawn in 

 the plate, and an end of a corresponding bone of the fore-leg appears to me of 

 equally gigantic dimensions. I believe you have not yet actually seen any thing 

 from these hills, and inclose you a tooth I hammered out of the rock at the Kalo- 

 wala Pass, wrapped in Upland Georgia cotton." 



The best thanks of the Society were voted for Colonel Colvin's obliging 



offer. 



With reference to the same subject, the following extract from a private letter, 

 (received subsequently to the Meeting,) from Dr. H. Falconer will be read with 

 interest: it is dated Mussooree, 3rd January, 1835. 



" You have heard from Capt. Cautley and Lieut. Baker about the late fossil 

 discoveries up here : I have come in for a lion's share of them. In one of my tours 

 I had to return by Nahun, and having heard of the tooth presented by the Raja, in 

 October, to Lieut. Baker, I made inquiry and had a fragment of a tooth pre- 

 sented to me also. I got a hint of where they came from, and on going to the 

 ground, T reaped a splendid harvest. Conceive only my good fortune : within six 

 hours, I got upwards of 300 specimens of fossil bones ! This was on the 20th 

 November, a couple of days after Lieuts. Baker and Durand had got their first 

 specimens through their native collectors. 



" Capt. Cautley has since got about 40 specimens : my collection amounts to 

 nearly 400 : and it is exceedingly rich and varied. There are more species than 

 Messrs. Crawford and Walltch got from the Irawaddi. Here are some of the 

 results fromarapid examination of Capt. Cautley's collection, (notincluding the 

 Kalowala fossils noticed in all his late letters in your Journal,) and my own. 



Mastodon Elephantoides. A most perfect cheek tooth, left side of lower 

 jaw, 13^ inches long ! indicating an animal of immense size. Por- 

 tions of the ivory tusks of do., ribs, and huge fragments of bones of 

 the extremities. H. F.'s collection. 



Mastodon Latidens ? cheek tooth doubtful from being water worn. Cautley's. 



Hippopotamus. Fragment of the lower jaw with teeth. H. F.'s collection. 



Rhinoceros ? doubtful. Cautley's and H. F.'s collections. 



