138 Celt from the Narbada Valley. [July, 



Capt. W. F. Badgley, B. S. C, Deputy Superintendent Topographical 

 Survey, proposed by Major H. H. Godwin-Austen, seconded by Capt. J. 

 Waterbouse. 



Lieut. K. G. Woodtborpe, R. E., Assistant Superintendent Topographi- 

 cal Survey, proposed by Major H. H. Godwin-Austen, seconded by Capt. 

 J. Waterhouse. 



The President announced that the Council have nominated Col. J. E. 

 Gastrell as a Trustee of the Indian Museum, on behalf of the Society, in 

 place of Dr. Stoliczka. 



Mr. H. B. Medlicott exhibited a stone implement from the Ossiferous 

 " Pliocene" deposits of the Narbada valley. 



Mr. Medlicott invited attention to the perfectly regular, pointed oval, 

 form of the celt as proving it to be unquestionably manufactured. On the 

 important point of geological position, it is equally satisfactory, having 

 been dug by Mr. Hacket of the Geological Survey, out of the stiff clay on the 

 bank of the Narbada near Bhutra, north of Gadarwara. Some twenty feet of 

 ossiferous gravel rested on the clay ; the whole being about one hundred feet 

 below the present surface-level of the deposits. Dr. Falconer from first to 

 last applies the term Pliocene to these beds and to their mammalian fossils, 

 and with the conviction that human remains would be found in them. 



Mr. Medlicott drew attention to the immense antiquity implied by the 

 name Pliocene ; and proved from Dr. Falconer's own writings that it had 

 been knowingly applied by him, quite independently of its fixed meaning 

 in the scale of geological formatious, and simply as expressing for the mamma- 

 lian fauna that approximation to existing forms by which relation, as applied 

 to the molluscan fauna, the name was intended, and is universally used, to 

 indicate the youngest Tertiary formations. Dr. Falconer pointedly noted 

 the great distinctions of the old Narbada fauna from that of the Sivaliks, 

 and its strong affinities with existing forms ; nowhere insisting upon it as 

 specifically Pliocene. 



Mr. Medlicott further pointed out from purely geological considera- 

 tions that no such antiquity could be assigned to the old alluvium of the 

 Indian rivers ; that he could not regard them as older than the late Pleistocene 

 or Quaternary, i. e. on about the horizon of the implement-bearing gravels of 

 the river-valleys of northern Europe. 



Mr. Blochmann exhibited several rubbings and tracings of inscriptions 

 received from Jaunpur, Panipat, and Muzaffarnagar, the former from Gene- 

 ral Cunningham, the latter from Mr. J. G. Delmerick, Dihli, and Mr. A. 

 Cadell, C. S. He said— 



