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Notes on Fossil Discoveries in the valley of the Nerbudda. By G. G. 



Spilsbury, Esq. 



In continuation of my notes on the fossils of the Nerbudda valley, 

 I beg to forward for presentation to the Society another series of 

 drawings from the same able friend's pencil, and without whose cheer- 

 fully accorded aid, I should have little chance of being either intelligi- 

 ble or interesting. 



A. is a set of six specimens drawn to the same scale. 



No. 1. I had set down as that of the humerus of a buffalo, but 

 am doubtful, from its answering almost completely in dimensions to a 

 similar bone delineated in Captain Beechey's voyage as that of the 

 Musk Ox ; and to shew the great resemblance, G is the reverse drawing 

 of No. 1 for comparison with Captain Beechey's, made to his scale and 

 delineation. 



No. 2. Is a portion of the femur of a similar animal. 



No. 3. Portion of femur of elephant. 



No. 4. Tooth of hippopotamus. 



No. 5. Part of lower jaw of an elephant. 



No. 6. Sacrum with last lumbar vertebra of some bovine animal. 



B. No. 7. Lower jaw of a wild hog, and C. No. 7. in the next plate, 

 is a somewhat different view of the same specimen. 



No. 8. Part of the lower jaw, tusks, and teeth, imperfect, of the hip- 

 popotamus. 



D. No. 9. Dexter half of the lower jaw of an animal of the deer kind. 

 No. 10. Portion of upper jaw and teeth of a deer. 



E. Posterior molars of a hippopotamus. 



F. Two drawings, frontal a, and occipital b, of a horned animal re- 

 markable for the little depth of the skull, from the point at b to the 

 condyles of the occiput being scarcely two inches; c d are reversed 

 views of the chin of the hippopotamus ; the original of which has been 

 forwarded for presentation to the Museum, accompanied by seventeen 

 other specimens. 



Of the various sites and localities from which the foregoing have 

 been derived, a few remarks may be necessary. They occupy a space 

 (generally on the banks of the Nerbudda) from some miles above 

 Jubbulpore down to Erimhan-ghat, a distance of at least eighty miles by 



