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took toll of them to supply the want. Nature herself became his 
library and his museum. Skeletons of all kinds were prepared ; 
the extinct forms he collected were compared with their nearest 
living allies, and a valuable series of “Memoirs” by himself and 
Captain Cautley was the result.^ 
The Sivalik explorations soon attracted attention in Europe, 
and in 1837 Wollaston Medal, in duplicate, was awarded for 
their discoveries to Dr. Falconer and Captain Cautley by the 
Geological Society, the fountain of geological honours in England ; 
while the value of the distinction was enhanced by the terms 
in which the President, Sir Charles Lyell, was pleased to an- 
nounce the award. This is what he said : “ When Captain Cautley 
and Dr. Falconer first discovered these remarkable remains, their 
curiosity was awakened, and they felt convinced of their great 
scientific value ; but they were not versed in fossil osteology [the 
study of bones], and, being stationed on the remote confines of 
our Indian possessions, they were far distant from any living 
authorities or books on comparative anatomy to which they could 
refer. The manner in which they overcame these disadvantages, 
and the enthusiasm with which they continued for years to prosecute 
their researches, when thus isolated from the scientific world, are 
truly admirable. Dr. Royle has permitted me to read a part 
of their correspondence with him, when they were exploring the 
Sivalik Mountains, and I can bear witness to their extraordinary 
energy and perseverance. From time to time they earnestly 
requested that Cuvier’s works might be sent out to them, and 
expressed their disappointment when, from various accidents, 
these volumes failed to arrive. The delay, perhaps, was fortu- 
nate ; for, being thrown entirely upon their own resources, they 
soon found a museum of comparative anatomy in the surrounding 
plains, hills, and jungles, where they slew the wild tigers, buffaloes, 
antelopes, and other Indian quadrupeds, of which they preserved 
^ These appeared in the Asiatic Researches^ the Journal of the Asiatic Society 
of Bengaf and in the Geological Transactions of the London Geological Society. 
