Notices of Memoirs — Fossil Mammalia, Bugti Hills. 473 



Dr. D. IT. Scott, F.H.S. — A Palaeozoic Pern and its llelationships 



(Zt/gopteris Grai/i, Williamson). 

 Professor A. C. Seward, F.R.S. — A Petrified Jurassic Plant from 



Scotland. 

 H. Hamshaw Thomas. — Ilecent Researches on the Jurassic Plants of 



Yorkshire. 

 Miss T. Lockhart. — A Contribution to our Knowledge of the Formation 



of Calcareous Nodules containing Plant-remains. 



III. — The Mammalian Fauna in the Miocene Deposits of the JJcgti 

 Hills, Baluchistan. 1 



Interim Eeport of the Committee, consisting of Professor G. C. BOURNE 

 (Chairman), Mr. C. ForsterCooper (Secretary), Drs. A. Smith Woodward, 

 A. E. Shipley, C. W. Andrews, and H. F. Gadow, and Professor 

 J. Stanley Gardiner, appointed to enable Mr. C. Forster Cooper to 

 make an examination thereof. (Drawn up by the Secretary.) 



rPHIS expedition arrived in Jacobabad in the middle of January, 1911, 

 J_ and after obtaining the necessary camels, stores, and servants, 

 proceeded into the Bugti territory and arrived in five days at Kumbhi. 

 Here the fossiliferous beds were located and four weeks spent in 

 working out the exposures each side of Kumbhi. The beds were then 

 followed out to the eastward round the Zen Koh range, with varying 

 success, the strata in parts being much disturbed and unsuitable for 

 the preservation of fossils. 



During the last four weeks of the expedition an important bone-bed 

 was discovered at Churlando of a different character of deposition 

 to the other beds. Owing to the difficult nature of the excavation, 

 the lack of suitable labour, and to the fact that very heavy rains 

 delayed the work for a week, much still remains to be done in this 

 bed, and the interesting specimens obtained warrant its further 

 exploration. 



A considerable collection of mammalian remains was obtained from 

 the various localities which is now in process of development and 

 cleaning in the laboratories of the Natural History branch of the British 

 Museum prior to a detailed examination and description. 



The fauna consists largely of Anthracotheres, of which group many 

 species are represented in the collection. Bernains of extinct orders of 

 Bhinoceros are also common, including an interesting new genus now 

 in process of examination. 



Fragments of small Artiodactyles also occur, but owing to the 

 character of the deposits small forms are seldom preserved. The 

 condition of the remains is unfortunately poor as a rule, partly owing 

 to the weathering and partly to the damage done by conternporary 

 crocodiles at the time of deposition, the remains of these animals being- 

 abundant as well as the marks of their teeth on the fossils obtained. 



The expedition received much kindness and help from the Govern- 

 ment officials, as well as from the ruling chiefs of Dera Bugti. 



1 Eead before Section C (Geology), British Association, Portsmouth, 

 September, 1911. 



