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Madras Literary and Philosophical Society, and copies of which have 

 been sent to the Society, and distributed elsewhere, although I believe 

 the part of the Madras Journal, in which it will appear, is not yet 

 issued. Many of the others are from the neighbourhood of Rachootee, 

 collected by Mr. Charles Oldham, and some from the neighbourhood 

 of Kurnool, chiefly collected by Mr. W. King. Those now on the 

 table are unquestionably the finest yet seen in India, and many of 

 them are as fine specimens of these peculiar forms as have ever yet 

 been described anywhere. 



" In the Madras presidency, so far as the officers of the Geological 

 Survey have gone, they occur everywhere under very much the same 

 conditions as have been already described by Mr. Foote. As regards 

 the elevations of the places where they are found, they have now been 

 traced up to nearly 2000 feet above the present level of the sea : and 

 they have been traced from south of Madras northwards to Kurnool, 

 a distance of some three degrees of latitude ; not, of course, con- 

 tinuously ; but at intervals, and wherever favourable conditions exist. 

 And the Society will recollect that it is only a few months since, that 

 specimens of identically the same general character, and even of very 

 much the same material, were exhibited to them, picked up by Mr. 

 Ball of the Geological Survey, in the country south of Parisnath in 

 Bengal. 



" Nothing very definite has been added to our knowledge as regards 

 the age of these implements in the Madras presidency. Some of 

 those more recently obtained, have been taken out of lateritic deposits, 

 as well as those originally described by Mr. Foote. But the age of 

 these lateritic deposits is itself not very definite. Bearing, however, 

 on this important question of relative age, I have within the last few days 

 received from Mr. W. T. Blanford, Depy. Supt. of the Geological Survey 

 on the Bombay side, a statement of the highest interest. Many of the 

 members of Society are perhaps not aware that, spreading over a large 

 area, in the country drained by the upper waters of the Godavery and its 

 affluents, there is a widely spread deposit of clays and gravels contain- 

 ing remains of large Mammalia, which are probably of the same kind 

 as those which occur in the similar gravels and clays of the Nerbudda 

 valley, and of which the Society possesses many specimens. From 

 these gravels and in the valley of the Godavery, near Pyton, an 



