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Licynodon. It is worthy of remark that these remains were 
presented to the Asiatic Society in 1836 by Mr. Pope, of the 
Cape of Good Hope, through Mr. J. Trotter, nine years before 
Mr. Bain was rewarded in 1845, for their supposed first dis- 
covery by the award of the proceeds of the Wollaston Fund, by 
the Geological Society of London. It is stated in the proceedings 
of the Society that Mr. Pope “ the modest discoverer of this new 
fossil deposit” found them in the bed of the Ganka River in the 
district between the Zwarteberg and the Nienwbergen the Central 
part of the Cape Colony Lat. 33° S. and 22° — 23° W. Long, 
being the district where Mr. Bain, several years afterwards, met 
with his specimens (Jour. A. S. Yol. Y. p. 518.) 
Besides those above enumerated, the Society’s Museum 
possesses, of foreign specimens, some cave bones of the Ursus 
sjjeloeus from Germany; also casts of English Coprolites, &c. 
presented by Dr. Buckland, and of Basilosaurus remains (Zeu- 
glodon of Owen) presented by Dr. Harlan from America. 
The main object of the present Catalogue was to identify, and 
determine the extent of the Indian Collections ; and no 
language can exceed the appalling confusion, disorder and dilapi- 
dation in which they were found. Fossil bones from the Lias 
of England, from the Cape of Good Hope, Ava, Perim Island, 
the valley of the Nerbudda and the Sewalik Hills, huddled 
together in heaps, distributed over various rooms on the ground 
floor, and in ninety-nine cases out of the hundred, without a 
label or mark of any kind whatsoever to indicate whenoe they 
came ! Many valuable specimens that had been presented to the 
Society were lost ; others were found broken and the missing 
pieces either never recovered, or only after a search that extended 
over weeks. The only exception was in the case of Col. Colvin’s 
second presentation, the specimens belonging to which were in 
glazed cases, in fair preservation and marked with distinctive 
numbers. 
The following remarks occur in a paper on Col. Colvin's 
fossils by James Prinsep, dated the 6th April, 1836, 
