CAUTLEY, Sin PROBY TIIOS., K.C.B., entered the Bengal Artillery in 1819. Ito was employed in the field during the years 1820 and 1821, in the reduction of numerous forts in the kingdom of Ondh. In 1825 and 1826 he served at the siege of Bhartpur. Ile was subsequently employed as a civil engineer on the eastern Jumna Canal in the N.W. Provinces, and was the pro jector and the executor of the great Gauges Canal Works, which were opened 8th April 1854. Ho carried on extensive researches, in conjunction with Dr. Falconer, in the fossil remains in the Siwalik hills, and he presented to the British Museum an extensive collection of fossil mam malia from the Panjsb. lie wrote on a submerged city, 20 feet under ground, near Behut, in the Doab, Bl. As. Tr. 1834 ; On Fossil Quadru mana, ibid. ; Use of Wells, etc., in Foundations, as practised in the Northern Doab ; Structure of the Sevallick Hills ; Notice of a Fossil Monkey from the Sevallick Hills ; Coal and Lignite in the Himalayas ; Description of Sivatherium gigan ticum, the Fossil Crocodile, Giraffe, Ghurial, Hippopotamus, Camel, Tiger, and Bear ; Gold Washings in the Goomti River, in the Sevallick Hills, between the Jumna and Sntlej Rivers; On a New Species of Snake ; Mastodonta dentetroites; Mastodons of Sevallicks ; Manufacture of Tar in the Sevallick Hills; Panchukki or Corn Mill ; Dam Sluices ; Retharks on the Fortress of Ali gush ; Caramssa Bridge. On leaving Calcutta for
Europe, he was honoured with a salute from the batteries of Fort William, and was favourably noticed in the Government Gazette.—Gleanings of Soc. Beng. As. S. Tr. 1834 ; Parlby's Military Repository, Lond. ; Geol. Soc. Tr. 1840.