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Notices of Books. 
[January, 
gists would by this time have ceased dating from an event, or 
rather a process, of unknown and unknowable antiquity. 
Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India. Palaeontologia In- 
dica ; being Figures and Descriptions of the Organic 
Remains procured during the Progress of the Geological 
Survey of India. Indian Tertiary and Post-Tertiary Verte- 
brata (Vol. i., 3). Ser. X., 3. — Crania of Ruminants. By 
R. Lydekker, B.A. Calcutta : Geological Survey Office, 
London : Triibner and Co. 
The author here figures and describes all the Bovoid Ruminants 
in the Indian Museum, identifying as many of them as agree 
with those of Dr. Falconer’s species of which figures and descrip- 
tions are extant, and discussing their affinities. He remarks 
that there are at present seven well-marked species of true 
Bovidae in South-eastern Asia : — Bubalus ami , Bibos gaurus , 
frontalis, and banting , Bos chinensis and indicus , and Poephagus 
grunniens. Nowhere in Asia is there a true taurine ox. Buba- 
lus ami is doubtless the direCt descendant of the gigantic 
Bubalus palceindicus of the Nerbudda gravels and of the upper- 
most Siwalik beds. The fossil species now identified are Bos 
namadicus, planifrons , acutifrons , and platyrhinus, Bubalus pla- 
tyceros and palceindicus, Bison sivalensis , Peribos occipitalis, 
Hemibos triquetriceros, and Amphibos acuticomis, all of which, 
except the first-mentioned, have been found in the Siwalik. 
Bubalus palceindicus — an animal of immense strength, far sur- 
passing the living Arni — was doubtless contemporary with man, 
since stone implements have been found in the bone-beds from 
which its remains have been obtained. The Sivatheridae — of 
which a new species, Hydaspitherium megacephalum (Lydekker), 
is here figured and described — are interesting as connecting the 
now isolated genus Camelopardalis with other families of the 
order, 
The figures, which are beautifully executed, have been chiefly 
lithographed by a native artist, Rasick Lall Bose. 
Ser. XI., 2. — Flora of the Jabalpur Group (Upper Gondwanas) 
in the Son-Narbada Region. By Ottokar Feistmantel, 
M.D. Calcutta : Geological Survey Office. London : 
Triibner and Co. 
This volume is devoted to Ferns, Cycads, and Conifers. In his 
summary the author points out that in the Jabalpur- Kach group 
there is an older flora with a younger flora ; whilst in the Kota- 
Maleri group the flora is the younger element and the land 
