1835.] List of Fossil Specimens from Bilwan, 571 



*V. — List of Fossil Specimens from Bilwan, and from the Betivd, 

 collected by Lieut. Vicary, in December, 1834. 



Right branch to the 13th tooth of the lower jaws of a crocodile, 

 I believe the muggur (magar) ; all the alveoli are empty, except the 

 7th, which contains a germ. 



The scapula, part of a rib, and another bone of the same animal : 

 all found together within 300 yards of the Bugowti, about a mile to 

 the N. W. of the village of Bilwan, between Mirzapur and Chunar : 

 they were bedded in clay, mixed with kankar and some shells like 

 those of the river ; the clay rests on sandstone, which was exposed in 

 the bottoms of the water-courses. 



A bone, found on the surface, at the same place. 



From the Betwd in Bundelkand, January, 1834. 



Bones of a bovine animal, found imbedded in cemented gravel, on 

 the right bank of the Betwd river, about one mile east of Jeldlpur, 

 between Kalpi and Keitah. 



No. 1. — Clay on which the gravel rests, and which forms the bed 

 of the river on that side. 



No. 2. — The cemented gravel in which I found the bones, at this 

 place ; it is about twenty feet in thickness. Half a mile nearer to 

 Jeldlpur, it decreases to two feet ; and in some places, is very slightly 

 cemented. 



No. 3. — The bones : some had fallen to the base of the gravel, and 

 were lying on the surface ; others were still firmly imbedded, and broke 

 in the effort to get them out. (I had not a hammer with me.) 



No. 4. — Stems or roots ? (Dendritical kankar perhaps,) above the 

 gravel ; in a light colored clay, of about four feet in thickness. 



No. 5. — Plate kankar, alternating two or three times with the 

 above clay, containing shells not differing from those of the river, and 

 often perforated by the roots ? 



a. A thin seam, resting on sandstone in the Sonar river, at the 

 waterfall near Hatta, containing shells (recent). 



b. A bone from the left bank above the same fall. 



c. A bone from the Byarmi river. 



* This paper was accidentally mislaid, when the article on the Jamna fossils, 

 of the last No. was in the press. It is referred to in page 502 of that paper, and 

 is here printed both to illustrate the remarks there made, and to preserve the 

 record of Lieut. Vicary's donation. The Mirzapur site of fossils is new, and 

 deserves further examination. In regard to the theory of the Jamna fossils being 

 derived from the Betwd river, Mr. Dean has pointed out to us that Karim 

 Khan is 20 miles above the junction of that river. — Ed. 



