a lower jaw, of which
the inner side is seen. The jaw contains seven molar teeth, one
canine, and three incisors; but the end of the jaw is
fractured, and traces of the alveolus of a fourth incisor are
seen. With this addition, the number of teeth would agree
exactly with those of a lower jaw of a didelphis. The fossil is
well preserved in a slab of oolitic structure containing shells
of trigoniae and other marine remains. Two or three other
similar jaws, besides those above represented, have been
procured from the quarries of Stonesfield.--See Broderip, Zool.
Journ. vol. ii. p. 408. Owen, Proceedings Geol. Soc., November,
1838.

[221] Darwin's Journal, chap. 19. Lyell's Manual of Geol. chap.
21, p. 279.

[222] Taylor's Annals of Nat. Hist. Nov. 1839.

[223] See notice by the Author, and Professor Owen, Taylor's
Annals of Nat. Hist. Nov. 1839.

[224] See Principles of Geology, 1st ed. 1830, vol. i p. 152.

[225] The first quadrumanous fossils discovered in India were
observed in 1836 in the Sewalik Hills, a lower range of the
Himalayan Mountains, by Lieutenants Baker and Durond, by whom
their osteological characters were determined (Journ. of Asiat.
Soc. of Bengal, vol. v. p. 739), and in the year following, other
fossils of the same class were brought to light and described by
Capt. Cantley and Dr. Falconer. These were imbedded, like the
former, in tertiary strata of conglomerate, sand, marl, and clay,
in the Sub-Himalayan Mountains. (Ibid. vol. v. p. 379. Nov. 1836;
and vol. vi. p. 354. May, 1837.)

The Brazilian quadrumane was found, with a great many other
extinct species of animals, by a Danish naturalist, Dr. Lund,
between the rivers Francisco and Velhas, in 1837.

The gibbon of the South of France was found by M. Lartet in the
beginning of 1837, and determined by M. de Blainville. It
occurred near Auch, in the department of Gers, about forty miles
west of Toulouse, in freshwater marl, limestone, and sand. They
were accompanied by the remains of the mastodon, dinotherium,
palaeotherium, rhinoceros, gigantic sloth, and other extinct
quadrupeds. (Bulletin de la Soc. Geol. de France, tom. viii. p.
92.)

The British quadrumane was