1835.] On the Fossil Bones of the Jamna River. 495 



arched ; nares long and oblique ; very voluminous horns turned 

 laterally with double flexures. I should add myself, the strong and 

 invariable distinction ; — males not odorous, as opposed to the males 

 odorous of the genus Capra. But, after all, there are no physical 

 distinctions at all equivalent to the moral ones, so finely and truly 

 delineated by Buffon, and which, notwithstanding what H. Smith 

 urges in favour of the courage and activity of sheep, will for ever 

 continue to be recognised as the only essential diagnostics of the two 

 genera. 



III. — On the Fossil Bones of the Jamna River. By Edmund Dean, 



Serjeant, Sappers and Miners. 



[Extract from a letter, dated 2nd April, 1834, accompanying the first despatch of 

 specimens, read at the Meeting of the 3rd July, 1834.] 



I have taken the liberty of sending for your inspection some speci- 

 mens from a collection of Jamna fossils, made by me during a period 

 of nearly two years, that I was employed under Captain E. Smith, 

 in removing the impediments to navigation in that river. 



I consider myself fortunate in having been able to procure several 

 portions of human bones, in so perfect a state, as to enable an 

 eminent medical gentleman to class the major part of them. 



With regard to the specimens before you, No. 8, (an elephant's 

 tooth,) resembles the 2nd and 3rd plates represented in plate x. fig. 

 10 of Parkinson's Outlines of Oryctology ; and No. 9, the 1st and 

 2nd plates of the same tooth, excepting that the number of the 

 elliptic figures on the crown caused by trituration, is greater in my 

 specimens ; and that great difference in the thickness of the plates of 

 this and the common Asiatic elephant, (a specimen of which I observe 

 is in your possession,) which he appears to consider a distinguishing 

 characteristic of the different species, is not so apparent in my 

 specimens as it appears to have been in those of Parkinson. This 

 difference, however, must be confined to the Asiatic specimens, as the 

 length of his fossil tooth was eight inches, and it was composed of 

 13 plates, which would make two of them average 1*23 in. : this, allow- 

 ing for the very apparent diminution in thickness of the plates towards 

 the rear, would make my larger specimen, which averages one inch, 

 correspond nearly enough with the plates 2nd and 3rd of fig. 10. 



Nos. 10 and 11, (figs. 1 and 2, of PI. xxxiii.) I have been led to 



suppose may have belonged to the species of tapir, the crowns of 



whose teeth are described as being divided into five transverse risings, 



and if by the enamel standing distinctly above the bony parts, the 



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