G. C Crick — StracJiei/s Cephalopoda from Himalaya. 61 



,1V. — Notes on the Cephalopoda belonging to the Strachey 

 • Collection from the Hijialaya. Part I : Jurassic. 



By G. C. Crick, Assoc. R.S.M., F.G.S., of the British Museum (Natural History). 



IN 1851 Captain (now Sir) Kicliard Strachey ^ communicated to 

 the Geological Society of London a paper " On the Geology of 

 Part of the Himalaya Mountains and Tibet," based upon the 

 observations which he had made during the years 1848 and 1849. 

 The Palgeozoic and Secondary fossils therein mentioned were 

 described in 1865 by J. W. Salter and H. F. Blanford respectively 

 in a work of which the title-page reads as follows: " Palasontology 

 of Niti in the Northern Himalaya : being descriptions and figures of 

 the Palaeozoic and Secondary Fossils collected by Colonel Richard 

 Strachey, R.E. Descriptions by J. W. Salter, F.G.S., A.L.S., and 

 H. F. Blanford, A.R.S.M., F.G.S. Eeprinted with slight corrections 

 for private circulation from Colonel Strachey's forthcoming work - 

 on the Physical Geography of the Northern Himalaya. Calcutta : 

 0. T. Cutter, Military Orphan Press. March, 1865." 



On p. 2 of this work Salter says : " The [Strachey] collection 

 was brought home numbered and catalogued, but still required 

 months of patient work in breaking up and chiselling out the 

 specimens. When finally arranged upon tablets, with localities, 

 be [Colonel Strachey] placed them all in the colonial collections, 

 of the Museum of Practical Geology, and left me the more pleasant 

 task of comparing and describing them " ; and in a footnote on 

 p. 80 Salter adds that " all the figured specimens of Colonel 

 Strachey's collection have been liberally presented by that 

 gentleman to the Museum of Practical Geology, London." In- 

 1880 the foreign collections (and among them the Strachey Col- 

 lection) were transferred from that Museum to the British Museum. 

 As many of the figured specimens were not marked as such, and 

 having regard to the importance of this collection and in view of 

 the interest which is now being manifested in the sedimentary 

 deposits of the Himalaya, it seemed desirable that the collection- 

 should be carefully examined and the described and figured 

 specimens identified and marked. The following notes are based 

 on an examination of the collection as it now exists in the National 

 Museum. The present part refers only to the Jurassic Cephalopoda ; 

 these were described by Professor H, F. Blanford in the work 

 already mentioned (pp. 74-88 and 105-111). The systematic 

 position of the species has not been discussed; this is being done 

 Hby Professor V. Ublig, of Vienna, who is preparing from a much 

 larger amount of material a memoir on the fauna for publication in 

 the PalcBontologia Indica. 



In Salter & Blanford's work on the " Palasontology of Niti," 

 the plates are numbered from i to xxiii and are all marked vol. ii ; 

 of these the first nine are photographs of engraved plates, whilst 

 the rest (x-xxiii) were lithographed and printed in Calcutta. As 



' Quart. Joura. Geol. Soc, vol. vii (1851), pp. 292-810. 

 - This work was never published. 



