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On Fossil Quadrumana. 



[Oct. 



matrix of the strata, and upon which the weather does not act so rapidly 

 as upon the clay. Under a bright sun, the beauty of these cliifs, with 

 their illumined pinnacles, is exquisite ; particularly westward of the 

 Jumna. I have before adverted to the presence of great abundance of 

 lime, forming stalactites, and the cement of the sandstone and conglo- 

 merate. There is another striking method of deposition on the sur- 

 face of the large stones which lie in the beds of the rivers, and which, 

 during the greater part of the year, are in contact with the water. The 

 subs^tance is very similar in appearance to the coarse brown paper made 

 in this country ; and is produced by the water, while washing the stone, 

 depositing its lime, and entangling the finer particles of vegetable mat- 

 ter, sand and mica, until the stone acquires a superficial coating, of a 

 brownish yellow colour, which on removal resembles the substance be- 

 fo re mentioned. 



Note by the Editor Geol. Trans. 

 For detailed descriptions, by Capt. Caiitley, Dr. Falconer, Lieut. 

 Baker, and others, of the most important animals found in the Sevalic 

 Hills, see Asiatic Researches; Calcutta, 1836; vol. xix. Part. I.; and 

 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, No i35. vol. iii. p. 527 ; Nos. 

 45, 46, and 48. vol. iv. pp. 495, 565, 706. ; Nos. 49, 53, 55, 57, 58, 59, 

 60. vol. V. pp. 38, 291, 294 , 486, 579, 661, 739, 768. 



Vir. — Notice on the Remains of a Fossil Monhey from the Tertiarij 

 Strata of the Sewalik Hills in the North of Eindooslan."^ — By Capt. 

 P- T. Caltlet, F. G. S., Bengal Artillery ; and H. Falco^^er, Esq., 

 31. Bengal Medical Service. 



The most highly organized mammifers hitherto described in a fossil 

 state, so far as our information extends, belonged to the Cheiroptera ; 

 and the instances of these on record are very few.j That quadruma- 

 nous remains should be wanting is by no means surprising, without the 

 necessity of supposing that they did not exist. The countries of which 

 the ancient races have been most completely investigated, had a climate 

 unsuited to be the habitat of the tribe, as we now know it, when the 



» From the Transactions of the Geological Society of London, Second Series, vol. 5. 

 + Brewstei's Edinburgh Journal of Science. 



