CAUTLEY, SIR PROBY THOMAS Eng lish engineer and palaeontologist, was born in Suffolk in 1802. After some years' service in the Bengal artillery, which he joined in 1819, he was engaged on the reconstruction of the Doab canal. He had charge of the completed canal for 12 years (1831-43) In 1840 he reported on the proposed Ganges canal, for the irri gation of the country between the rivers Ganges, Hindan, and Jumna. This project was sanctioned in 1841, but the work was not begun till 1843, and even then Cautley found himself ham pered in its execution by the opposition of Lord Ellenborough. For want of competent help he had to do the drudgery of surveying and levelling himself, for some time. From 1845 to 1848 he was absent in England owing to ill-health, and on his return to India he was appointed director of canals in the North-western Provinces. After the Ganges canal was opened in 1854 he spent some time in England, and from 1858 to 1868 he occupied a seat on the council of India. He died at Sydenham, near London, on Jan. 25, 1871. Cautley was a distinguished palaeontologist and contributed numerous memoirs, some written in collaboration with Dr. Hugh Falconer, to the Proceedings of the Bengal Asiatic Society and the Geological Society of London on the geology and fossil remains of the Sivalik hills.