ASIA. 137 



The occurrence of various minerals is noticed. Galena is sparsely 

 disseminated through some of the rocks. Tin-stone and magnetic iron 

 have been found in the gneiss, and worked on a small scale. In the 

 pegmatite, mica has been mined ; the plates of it commonly brought to 

 the market are from 6 inches to a foot across ; the largest plate the 

 author saw was 20 inches by 17. F. D. 



Maekuam, C. E,. Statement exhibiting the Moral and Material Pro- 

 gress and Condition of India during the year 1872-73. (Pari. Re- 

 port.) Pol., Lond. Pp. xviii, 230, 16 maps. 

 An enlarged and revised edition of the Report issued in 1873. The 

 information relating to Physical Geography or Geology occui's under 

 the following heads : — Agriculture (including meteorology), pp. 32-48 ; 

 Irrigation, pp. 49-74; Communications, pp. 75-89; Porests, pp. 90- 

 100 ; Minerals, pp. 101-106 ; Surveys, pp. 195-199. W. T. 



Medlicott, H. B. Note on habitat of Elastic Sandstone. Rec. Geol. 

 Surv. Ind. vol. vii, pt. 1, pp. 30, 31. 



This account is from the observations of Col. MacMahon. The flex- 

 ible sandstone occurs in patches or nests in a nearly vertical bed of 

 quartzite which is used for miUstones. There is no regular bed of it ; 

 it seems to be a local peculiarity of the sandstone-rock caused by per- 

 colation of rain-water from the surface. The formation is Yindhyan ; 

 the locality is Kaliana, five miles "VY. from Dadri, and sixtv miles "W, 

 from Delhi. ' P. D. 



. Notes from the Eastern Himalaya. Rec. Geol. Surv. Ind. 



vol. vii. pt. 2, pp. 53, 54. 



A notice of the discovery by Mr. Mallet of a band of Damuda Coal- 

 measures between the Tertiary sandstones and the schists of the 

 Sikkim Himalayas. There is no marked stratigraphical break be- 

 tween these Coal-measures and the slaty and schistose rocks of the 

 mountains. F. D. 



. Coal in the Garo Hills. Rec. Geol. Surv. Ind. vol. vii. pt. 2, 



pp. 58-62. 



The coal (Cretaceous) occurs by the river Semsang and some of its 

 tributaries. The outcrop of a 7-foot bed was observed ; it is a Uglit 

 coal, brown, but an excellent fuel. The author concludes that there is 

 a coal-field of considerable extent. The probability of more coal being 

 found in other basins not far off is discussed. P. D. 



Meissner, — . Die Naphta-Qucllen bei Mendcli in Irak Arabi. 



[Naphtha springs near Mcndeli, Irak Arabi.] Petermann's Mit- 



theilungen, Rd. xxx. pp. 343-346, 4 figs, in text. 



A description of the beds from which the naphtha is collected is 



given. The springs apparently rise along the axis of an anticlinal, and 



are associated with gas-discharges. The mode of working the springs 



is given, and some information as to their produce. G. A. L. 



