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Notes on Nerbudda Fossils. By Dr. G. G. Spilsbury, H. C. M. S. 

 ( With four plates.) 



[The Editors have again to regret a delay, for which they are, however, not responsible, in the 

 appearance of this valuable paper and its plates. It has arisen from circumstances over which they 

 have had no control, and which have been privately explained to Dr. Spilsbury, to whose invalu- 

 able assistance they again confidently look, now that he is on his old ground ; and to whose labours 

 they will spare no trouble or expence in doing full justice.— Eds] 



Herewith I have the pleasure to forward a farther series of notes and 

 drawings in regard the Fossil Geology of the Nerbudda, and owing to 

 circumstances over which I have no control, I much fear that this will 

 be the last opportunity I shall have of placing on record any notice of 

 this interesting pursuit, as long before you can receive this, I shall have 

 quitted the Saugor and Nerbudda Agency, 



Before leaving this part of the country, I wish to bring before the So- 

 ciety, as far as has come under my observation, specimens of the differ- 

 ent bovine and bubuline class of animal fossils, wild and domestic, met 

 with in these districts ; for this purpose I have had a series of drawings 

 made all to the same scale, and for which I am indebted to the very 

 able pencil of former communications, 



Plate No. 1 , is the Bovine series. 



A. Skull and horns of the Bos Gaurus of the wilds of the Nerbudda. 

 E. Ditto, of the domestic animal. 



C. G. Two specimens of fossil horns, the one little exceeding in di- 

 mensions those of the present domestic animal, while the other surpasses 

 in magnitude that portion of horn seen in the skull of B. 



B. D. F. H. Specimens of skulls, all fossil. B. and F. having portion of 

 horn attached ; that of B. being entirely free from matrix shows the real 

 size, but F. is incased in matrix, and therefore only an approximation 

 to its dimensions can be made. The occipital view of H. exhibits the 

 ridge so characteristic of Bos Gaurus of the present day. 



Plate No. 2, the Bubuline series. 



la. Horns and osfrontis of a wild buffalo from the Mekul Hills about 

 Umurkuntuk, the source of the Nerbudda river. 



2b. Skull and horns of another specimen ; but in this only the osseous 

 part of the horns remain, the whole of the horny portion having been 

 removed ; its locality is the same. 



3c. The os frontis of a fossil buffalo, showing the massy breadth be- 

 tween the orbits so marked in this class. 



4c?. A particular fine fossil skull, and greater portion of horns of a 

 buffalo lately brought in from this neighbourhood. To show its great 

 size, I have added two other drawings, No. 3, on a much larger scale. 



5e. Is the ordinary domestic animal. 



