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taken possession of Java, than arrangements were made for securing 

 the services of Dr. Horsfield, an eminent naturalist then residing in the 

 island, and his valuable collections were made over to the Company. 

 On then arrival of Dr. Horsfield in this country, these scientific trea- 

 sures were deposited in the India House ; and when suitable arrange- 

 ments had been made in the museum for their reception, they were 

 opened to the public and to men of science : and the " Zoological 

 Researches in Java" were soon after published, under the Company's 

 patronage. The chief results of Dr. Horsfield' s discoveries being thus 

 given to the world, the rich collection of duplicate specimens was 

 ordered to be distributed, like those of the plants, among the different 

 public museums, and the eminent zoologists, both in Britain and on the 

 Continent. The splendid collection of insects, equally rich in dupli- 

 cates, will, no doubt, be employed in a manner equally calculated to 

 benefit science, so soon as the honour attached to their discovery and 

 investigation has been secured. In short, in whatever light we view 

 the scientific patronage exercised by the India Company, it is scarcely 

 possible to do justice to that munificent spirit which is apparent in all 

 the details. — A Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural His* 

 tory. — By William Swainson, Esq. — Cab. Cyc. p. 329—331. 



Dr. Buckland's Geology and Mineralogy — The Sivatherium.-— 

 The long expected volumes of the Bridgewater Treatises, containing 

 Dr. Buckland's treatise on Geology and Mineralogy, have, at length, 

 reached India. The following psssage relates to the interesting fossil, 

 an account of which appeared in the 12th number of this Journal. 



" An account has recently been received from India of the discovery 

 of an unknown and very curious fossil ruminating animal, nearly as 

 large as an elephant, which supplies a new and important link in 

 the Order of Mammalia, between the Ruminantia and Pachydermata. 

 A detailed description of this animal has been published by Dr. Falco- 

 ner and Captain Cautley, who have given it the name of Sivatherium, 

 from the Sivalic or Sub-Himalayan range of hills in which it was found, 

 between the Jumna and the Ganges. In size it exceeded the largest 

 Rhinoceros. The head has been discovered nearly entire. The front 

 of the skull is remarkably wide, and retains the bony cores of two short 

 thick and straight horns, similar in position to those of the four-horned 

 Antelope of Hindostan. The nasal bones are salient in a degree with- 

 out example among Ruminants, and exceeding in this respect those of 

 the Rhinoceros, Tapir, and Palaeotherium, the only herbivorous animals 

 that have this sort of structure. Hence there is no doubt that the 

 Sivatherium was invested with a trunk like the Tapir. Its jaw is twice 

 as large as that of a Buffalo, and larger than that of a Rhinoceros. The 



