1884.] 
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Analyses of Books. 
Atlas from the Sub-Himalaya and Burma. This fine species is 
supposed to have been 22 feet in length. 
Mammalian remains are numerous and important, though 
none have yet been detached below the Eocene. 
The Pliocene furnishes the palate of a female, and the upper 
canine of a male belonging apparently to a large anthropoid ape, 
Palceopithecus Sivalensis. This species is distinguished from 
the mias of Borneo and Sumatra, to which it otherwise approxi- 
mates, by the narrower form of the premolars. Felis cristata, 
otherwise known as F. palceotigris and F. grandicristata, is a 
large tiger, distinguished by its greatly developed sagittal crest. 
To Machairodus (why, in accordance with all analogy, is this 
species not named Machairodon P) belongs M. Sivalensis, ranging 
in size between the tiger and the jaguar. 
All the known genera or sub-genera of the Proboscideans are 
represented. 
The rhinoceroses — one-horned, two-horned, and hornless — are 
also well represented. Some remains, now in the author’s 
hands, seem to approximate to the existing African species. 
The remains of rodents are few, and there is only one edentate, 
Manis Sindiensis, a pangolin four times the size of the still 
living M. pentadactylus. 
Altogether a Pliocene fauna is characterised by the admixture 
of genera now peculiar to Africa, and of Miocene and Pliocene 
Europe with the forms now especially Asiatic. “ Modern India 
has only the impoverished remains of a once extensive fauna of 
mighty forms.” The high degree of specialisation of many of 
the genera is a marked feature. 
The author adds, in conclusion, a very valuable chronological 
list of species. 
Mr. F. R. Mallet, F.G.S., furnishes a paper on the “ Iron Ores 
and Subsidiary Materials for the Manufacture of Iron in the 
Jabalpur District.” The author recommends Murwara as a site 
for iron-works. 
Mr. Mallet also contributes a paper on the “ Lateritic and 
other Manganese Ores found at Gosulpur, in the Jubalpur 
District. 
Mr. T. W. H. Hughes writes on the Umaria Coal-field, and 
recommends practical trial. 
The English Illustrated Magazine. No. 3. December, 1883. 
London : Macmillan and Co. 
There is little matter in this issue which can legitimately come 
under our notice. 
