. Palaeontological memoirs and notes of H. Falconer, with a biographical sketch of the author . 1. 2. Cxococ 1 a-n,IA ?-TT^^.^^ - :^4 r. ^tnFlnic KT^tn^Wr-lnnc P^.^^^^^,. CROCODILES. 355 we are unable to separate tlie remaina of one from thoseof the other. A great quantity have been found—teeth, osse-ous plates, ribs, vertebrae, &c.; the latter having the concavo-convex body, and the sacral vertebrae, with their transverseprocesses compressed and cylindrical, agree in every respectwith the existing animal. NoETHEEN DoAB : Octoher 1, 1835. APPENDIX TO MEMOIR ON —No
. Palaeontological memoirs and notes of H. Falconer, with a biographical sketch of the author . 1. 2. Cxococ 1 a-n,IA ?-TT^^.^^ - :^4 r. ^tnFlnic KT^tn^Wr-lnnc P^.^^^^^,. CROCODILES. 355 we are unable to separate tlie remaina of one from thoseof the other. A great quantity have been found—teeth, osse-ous plates, ribs, vertebrae, &c.; the latter having the concavo-convex body, and the sacral vertebrae, with their transverseprocesses compressed and cylindrical, agree in every respectwith the existing animal. NoETHEEN DoAB : Octoher 1, 1835. APPENDIX TO MEMOIR ON —Note by Editor. Subsequent investigations in the British Museum and elsewherecaused doubt in Dr. Falconers mind as to the correctness of theidentifications by Capt. Cautley in the above memoir. This is indicatedby the following passage from a letter dated London, Jan. 5th, 1844,addressed to Capt. Cautley in India :— Our Crocodile of the Upper Provinces is not the C. hiporcatus ofCuvier—of that I am certain. There appear to be three existingIndian species of Crocodile, as distinc
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