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stances, is wrought out of nephrite or jade. It was found on the banks 
of the Jumna, near the city of Allahabad, in Hindostan, brought to 
England by Lieutenant-General Kyd, and presented to the Museum 
by Thomas Wilkinson, Esq. 
The Wall Cases 1 to 4 in Room II. contain osseous remains (and 
casts of the same, marked with asterisks) of Pachydermata and Eden¬ 
tata : among the more prominent specimens belonging to the former of 
these natural orders, maybe particularized the remains of th eDeinotherium, 
the most gigantic of terrestrial mammalia, chiefly found at Eppelsheim, 
forty miles N.W. of Darmstadt,—jaws, tusks, molar teeth and other 
osseous parts of Elephas primigenius Blumenb., especially those of the 
Siberian variety, the Mammoth of early writers; and, above all, the 
cranium of the Himalayan Elephant among the highly valuable speci¬ 
mens presented by Capt. Cautley, Bengal Artillery, to w T hose indefati¬ 
gable exertions science is indebted for the formation of a rich assem¬ 
blage of fossil remains obtained in the Siwalie or Sub-Himalayan ridge 
situate between the Jumna and Sutlej rivers, a great portion of wdiich 
collection is deposited in the Museum. From the same collection is 
the most perfect and instructive skull of a species of Mastodon, distinct 
from those hitherto noticed or described. The cranium and suite of 
molar teeth, &c., of the American Mastodon (M. Ohioticus ) also deserve 
particular notice.—Another striking object at this side of the room are 
the casts of a great portion of the skeleton of Megatherium found in 
the bed of the Rio Salado, near Buenos Ayres. The remaining genera 
of the thick skinned and edentate mammalia, of the Rhinoceros, the 
Hippopotamus, &c., are under re-arrangement, but several of them are 
already placed in the Wall Cases. • 
A distinct Glass Case at the N. side of this Room contains the fossil 
human skeleton embedded in limestone, brought from Guadaloupe by 
Admiral the Hon. Sir Alexander Cochrane, and presented to the 
British Museum by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. 
The Wall Cases in Rooms III. and IV. are destined for the osseous re¬ 
mains of the Class Reptilia; the greater part ofthemis already arranged. 
Cases 1 to 4 are set apart for the Batrachian, the Chelodonian and 
Emydosaurian reptiles, now under arrangement. To the?first named of 
these orders belongs the gigantic Salamander, the subject of Scheuchzer’s 
dissertation, Homo diluvii testis et theoscopos , Tiguri , 1726. Also the 
specimens illustrative of the Chelonians will be placed in one of these 
Wall Cases. Among the specimens of the third of these orders, may 
be specified the Crocodilian division, containing very interesting objects, 
such as specimens of the head with other bones of the gavial (or rather 
gharial) of Whitby, ( Teleosaurus Chapmanni ,) which, though correctly 
determined by its discoverer, Capt. W. Chapman, and also by Wooller ; 
(Phil. Trans, for 1758), w 7 as subsequently mistaken for a species of 
Ichthyosaurus ;—another species of gharial (considered a distinct genus, 
bearing the name of JEolodori) from the lias at Monheim in Franconia, , 
being the unique specimen described and figured by Soemmerring in 
the Memoirs of the Academy of Munich, under the name of Crocodilus 
prisons ;—a head of Crocodilus Toliapicus, mentioned by Cuvier'as Cro- { 
codile de Sheppey; —the head and other parts of the Geosaurus (the La- 
certa gigantea of Soemmerring) found together w 7 ith the preceding, and | 
figured and described by the last mentioned naturalist in the Trans- 
