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The igneous rocks are diabase, diorite, porphyries, and basalt. Lists 

 of fossils are given. The Coal Measures form part of the great Kous- 

 netzk basin, and comprise a number of coal-seams, one of which, No. 2 

 at the Batschat State Colliery, reaches a thickness of 60 metres where 

 undivided. Thicknesses and dips of all the known seams of the region 

 are given, as well as an analysis of a black-band ironstone found in the 

 shale with which the coal is associated. G. A. L. 



Nordenskjold, Prof. A. E. On the Jenisei. Nature, vol. xiii. 



Jewremow Kamen, the last rocky promontory up the eastern bank, 

 consists of a dolerite rock, 50 to 60 feet high, and is the last place 

 where marine life was observed. To the S. the E. side of the river has 

 steep sand-banks, 30 feet high, beyond which the tundra commences ; 

 this consists of sandy beds, containing no glacial erratics. In the 

 northern tundra were a few pebbles of basalt, of sandstone with marine 

 fossils, and of brown coal. C. E. De K. 



Oldham, T. Annual Report of the Geological Survey of India for 



1874. Rec. Geol. Siu-v. Ind. vol. viii. pp. 1-12. 

 A sketch of the progress of the Survey, illustrated by a map. 



Petit-Bois, G. Aper^u gcologique de la vaUee du Kara -Sou (Asie- 

 Mineure). [Geology of the Kara- Sou valley, Asia Minor.] Ann. 

 Soc. Geol. Belg. t. ii. Memoires, pp. 183-188. 



The sedimentary rocks, supposed to be Cretaceous, are associated with 

 igneous rocks ; and fossils are very rare in them. 



Pinart, Alph. L. La Caverne d'Aknanh, ile d'Ounga (archipel 

 Shumagin, Alaska). [The Cave of Aknank, Alaska.] 4to. Pans. 



Richthofen, Baron von. La province de Sz'tshwan. Jlcv. Sci. 



p. 388. 



Rousselet, Louis. L'lnde des Rajahs. Paris. 

 Gives an account of the diamond-mines of Pannah, with an illustra- 

 tion. The diamond-rock is worked at a depth of 180 ft. 



Stoliczka, F. The Altum-Artush, from a Geological point of view. 

 Bee. Geol. Surv. Ind. vol. viii. pp. 13-16. 



The province of which Altum-Artush (in long. 76° 8' E. and lat. 39° 

 41' N.) is the capital has in its S. part alluvial gravels and sands. 

 N. of this arc low hills of beds of conglomerate (at top) and below of 

 sandstones and clays. In some places these beds dip toiuards the older 

 rocks ; this phenomenon the author considers partly due to erosion of 

 the softer beds, and a consequent subsidence of those above. The next 

 series are Carboniferous rocks, breccia-limestone, limestone conglo- 

 merate, and dolomite-limestone. These smaller hills are a continua- 

 tion of the Koktan range ; they are overlain towards the Belanti 

 Pass by green and purple sandstones and shales, which may be Trias. 

 The paper ends with a description of some of the j'd(jas, which are 

 plains, the sites of old watercourses. F. I). 



