NOTES. 345 
There is at the present time a stream, the Aldingbourne Rife, which falls 
into the sea but a few hundred yards to the east of this locality. The 
stream at this spot runs between banks some 6 to 8 feet high. Below the 
sandy clay, sea sand of unknown depth was met with, which was dug into 
to a depth of about 4 feet. Through this, water constantly filtered, the 
trench having to be pumped out to keep it dry. 
The occurrence of sea sand would show that once before the sea had 
overrun this district, and now it is doing its best to return. This 
particular locality is protected by means of a wall, against which the 
shingle has become banked up to a height of about 8 feet above the land- 
level behind. During the excavation no actual ancient watercourse was 
cut through, so most likely this district formed part of an extensive salt 
marsh, subject to the action of the tides, before it became, as it is now, 
dry land. A. REYNELL. 
NotTE ON THE SUPPOSED LOCALITY “SULGRANEES,” WHENCE Dr. J. E. 
GRAY’s TYPE-SPECIMENS OF INDIAN JURASSIC AMMONITES WERE SAID TO 
HAVE BEEN OBTAINED. (Read 8th May, 1903.)—In Mr. Crick’s paper on 
Himalayan Jurassic Ammonites (ante, pp. 285-289) the locality whence 
the specimens of Ammonites Nepaulensis, A. Wallichii, and A. tenuistriata, 
the three species figured under those names by Dr. J. E. Gray in the 
“Tllustrations of Indian Zoology,” vol. i, pl. ©, were obtained, is stated, on 
the authority of the plate, to be “ Sulgranees, Nepaul.” 
So far as I am aware, no such place as “Sulgranees” is known, and 
I may add that it is very doubtful whether the Ammonites represented 
in the “Illustrations” came originally from Nepal at all; it 1s more 
probable they were brought from further west, from the region whence 
Ammonites have been supplied to India in all probability for ages. It is 
certain that there has long been an importation of small Ammonites into 
India from the Tibetan side of the Himalayas, chiefly from the Spiti 
district, N.N.E. of Simla, or from the neighbourhood of the Niti pass, 
north of Kumaun. These Ammonites, together with certain other stones, 
are known to Hindus by the name of “Saligram.” I think it is probable 
that this name, slightly modified and written Swlgranees, has been mistaken 
for the locality of the fossils. 
An explanation of the term Saligram will be found in Yule & Burnell’s 
“Hobson-Jobson.” The stones thus named are regarded as representatives 
of a god, and are especially connected with the cult of Vishnu. 
W. T. BLANFORD. 
Note oN A SPECIMEN oF FisruLANA CLAVA, LAMK., PERFORATING 
A SHELL OF Mirra rnTeRLIRATA, Reeve. (Read 8th May, 1903.)—On 
14th November last we exhibited before this Society a specimen of 
Fistulana clava, Lamk., the shelly walls of whose tube appeared to pass 
right through a shell of Mitra interlirata, Reeve (Pl. XVI, Fig. 8). Some 
doubt having been expressed in the discussion that followed as to whether 
the Fistulana had actually perforated the Mitra or had merely made its 
way through some fracture in it, we had a Rontgen-ray photograph of 
the specimen made. This photograph (Pl. XVI, Fig. 9) shows clearly 
that the /istulana had bored its way through the Mitra, and also absorbed 
portions of the Massa Gruneri, Dunker, which is attached to the base of 
the burrow. The walls of the burrow pass quite straight through the 
Mitra, the two valves of the Fstulana can be distinctly seen lying within 
the tube at its larger (anterior) end, and the diaphragm is indicated by the 
transverse line visible on the other side of, and close to, the Mitra. 
G. B. SowEersy & H. C. Furton. 
