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especially Halitherium , but has also elephantine chara< 5 ters. 
Marsupial bones are said to have been developed. The genus is 
considered as a generalised form connecting the Proboscidea with 
the Ungulata and Sirenia. Three fossil Indian species have 
been distinguished, and are here described. In the second 
family, the Elephantidae, never more than three teeth are in use at 
the same time, and the numberof ridges is either equal to or greater 
than the number in the preceding tooth. The fossil species found 
in India, and here described, are Mastodon falconei y M. pandi- 
onis, M. laiidcns, M . ferimensis , and M. sivalensis : Stcgodon 
Cliftii , 5 . bombifrons , S. insignis , and S. ganesa ; Loxodon pla- 
nifrons , and Euelephas hysudricus and E. namadicus. 
It thus appears that of the total of 38 known proboscideans, 
fossil and recent, no fewer than 16 belong to India, and 14 of 
these to the Siwalik period. Their extinction is ascribed by 
Prof. Huxley and Mr. Wallace to the Glacial epoch. 
Ser. XIV. Tertiary and Upper Cretaceous Fauna of Western 
India. Vol. I., Part I. Sind Fossil Corals and Alcyonaria. 
By P. Martin Duncan, M.B., F.R.S. 
In referring to previous works on the subjedt the author men- 
tions that, in the great treatise of MM. d’Archiac and Haime, 
“ Description des Animaux Fossiles du Groupe Nummulitique 
d’Inde,”the localities are erroneously given as the Hala Mountains 
— a totally imaginary range. The Sind corals grow in a shallow 
sea, and form five very natural faunas, that of each geological 
series, — the cretaceous, nummulitic, upper nummulitic, oligocene, 
and miocene, — community of species being exceptional. The 
treatise consists of a description of the species which have been 
identified. 
Vol. XV., Part II. Calcutta : Published for the Government of 
India. 
This volume is devoted to an elaborate account of the Ramkola 
and Tatapani Coal-Fields, by C. L. Griesbach, F.G.S. Many of 
the seams are only a few inches in thickness, and afford little 
prospedt of remunerative working. Others range up to 7, 9, and 
even 17 feet thick. 
Vol. XVII., Part I. Calcutta : Printed for the Government of 
India. 
This issue is an account of the geology of Western Sind, fur- 
nished by W. T. Blanford, F.R.S. The author draws attention 
to a primary distinction between the peninsular region of India, 
which has probably been land ever since the middle palaeozoic 
