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The museum of the Calcutta Medical College contains, as we have 
seen, three noble skulls of indicus, besides that with the entire 
skeleton of an old female (both the broad and narrow types of skull 
being represented) ; but it has neither sondaicits nor sttmatrantts. 
The Society’s museum still wants the first species ; but is tolerably 
well supplied with the two others. Sir T. H. Maddock, in 1842 
(J. A. S. XI, 448), presented us with two skulls of sokdaiclts (of 
the broad and the narrow types), and also with two of sumatranus 
(one wanting the lower jaw),—all from the Tenasserim provinces : 
and the skulls of an old male and of an adult female of su mateantfs, 
the skin of the head of the latter, its axis vertebra, the long bones 
of the limbs (minus the right fore-limb and scapula), and the two 
scapulae and long bones of the four limbs of the male, were presented 
to the Society by E. O’Reilly, Esq. (then of Amherst) in 1847 
(J. A. S. XVI, 3.10, 502). In the As. Res. Yol. XIII, App. XVIII, 
“ part of the head of a two-horned Rhinoceros” is recorded to have 
been presented ; and again, p. XIX, “ the horn of a Rhinoceros from 
Sumatra.” The latter was not in the museum when I took charge of 
it in 1841; but the former I think that I recognise in a pair of united 
nasal bones (certainly belonging to this species), and in this case 
the specimen would probably be from a Sumatran individual.* Of 
sondaicus we have also a fine series of skulls (one of them from 
Java, presented by the Batavian Society in 1844), the almost com¬ 
plete skeleton of a very nearly full-grown female (being considerably 
smaller than that of the female ikdicus in the Medical College 
museum), and the small stuffed specimen to which I have before re¬ 
ferred : the limb-bones of the skeleton being considerably more robust 
than those of sumatraiojs. For this skeleton, (and those of Ele¬ 
phant and Camel,) we are indebted to a former Nawab Nazim of 
Bengal; and it is, doubtless, either from Rajmaha] or the Sundarbans : 
the skull being of the broad type, though less strongly marked than 
some others, in fact intermediate, though scarcely quite mid-way 
intermediate. 
The following notice by Sir T. Stamford Raffles may be advan¬ 
tageously reproduced here. 
“The one-horned Rhinoceros of India is not known to the natives 
of this part of Sumatra ; and the single horns, which are occasionally 
* Add also the facial bones with 3mall horns which I brought from Martaban. 
