142 GEOLOGY. 



Tietze, Dr. E. Relsebriefe aus Persien. [Letters of Travel from 



Persia.] Mittheil. h.-lc. geogr. Oes. Bd. xviii. n. 2, pp. 79-81. 

 Contains geological notes. 



. Mittheilungen aus Persien. [Communications from Persia.] 



Verli. k.-h geol. ReicJis. pp. 25-30, 41-46, 129-133. 



Near Asterabad Palaeozoic fossils were ^found, indicating probably 

 Carboniferous Limestone, while U. Silurian fossils were abundant in 

 Suturuwar and Kelbchide valleys; with these are associated diorites 

 containing specular iron. Sulphur occurs near Tasch, not volcanic, but 

 in limestones and shales, older than Lias. The coal and plant-bearing 

 beds of the Lias are seen in other parts of the Alburs chain, which con- 

 sists chiefly of limestones, some older and some younger than Lias ; 

 below is older red sandstone ; no crystalline axis to the chain, but 

 azoic shales are seen near Astrabad. A thick deposit of salt was 

 noticed near the Sirdara pass. The Lignite of Taebris, 1| ft. thick, 

 occurs in light blue-grey marls, which contain gypsum layers and some 

 salt (? Miocene). Lead occurs at Eej in limestone. E. P. T. 



Trautschold, H. [The Urals.] Zeitsch. deutsch. geol. Ges. Heft 

 iii. pp. 703-706. 



Letter describing the writer's journey through the Urals, with special 

 reference to the mines. A great deposit of manganite has been dis- 

 covered near Tagil, and is worked for Bessemer steel manufacture. 

 The platinum washings at Tagil are now the only ones worked in the 

 Urals. The writer visited the Ilmen Mountains, the Perowskite Mines 

 of Achmatowsk, the Copper Mines near Orenburg, and the Mountain 

 Limestone, with asphalt, near Ssysran. Cavities of Fusulina shells and 

 CyatliopTiyllum were found filled with resin ; and the author argues in 

 favour of the origin of naphtha by decomposition of marine animals. 



P. W. P. 



Wilson, Major C. W. Palestine Exploration: the Ancient and 

 Modern Water Supply of Jerusalem. Science Lectures for the 

 People, ser. 6, pp. 253-267. 



Wynne, A. B. Geological notes on the Khareean Hills (Punjab). 

 Ree. Geol. Surv. Incl. vol. viii. pp. 46-49. 



The beds are brown and purple clays alternating with grey and 

 green sandstones. In the latter are thinly scattered teeth and frag- 

 ments of large bones of Equiis, Bos, Gervus, Elephas, and Grocodilus. 

 These beds appear to belong to the Potwar Tertiary series. They are 

 arranged in a distinct anticlinal, the axis of which coincides with the 

 highest part of the range. At the top they graduate into more recent- 

 looking beds — sandy and gravelly, with drab clays, the latter re- 

 sembling the alluvium of the neighbouring plains. The lower beds 

 may be 3000 ft. thick, the upper 200 to 400. E. D. 



. The Trans-Indus Salt Pegion in the Kohat District. Mem. 



Geol. Surv. Ind. vol. xi. pt. 2, pp. 220, with map. 

 The following is the series of rocks observed : — Upper, Middle, and 



