62 G. C. Crick — Stracheifs Ceplialoi^oda from Himalaya. 



I have stated elsewhere/ besides a complete copy of the work, 

 the library of the Geological Department of the British Museum 

 contains a set of plates presented by Sir Richard Strachey in 1892. 

 The first nine are engraved, and it is evident that it was from 

 precisely similar imprints that the photographs issued with the 

 work were taken ; plates x-xiii, xvi-xviii, and xxi-xxiii were 

 drawn and lithographed by W. H. Baily, the others, xix and xx, 

 by C. R. Bone ; and they were all printed by Ford & West, 

 evidently in England. The two sets of plates present, in the 

 drawing of the specimens, sufficient diflferences to show that the 

 * English ' set was not copied from the ' Indian,' but that most of 

 the figures at any rate were re-drawn from the actual specimens, 

 additional details being given in several instances.'^ General 

 Sir Richard Strachey informs me tliat the ' English ' set of plates 

 has never been " formally published," so far as he knows, "certainly 

 not in England." The additional details given in this set of 

 drawings has assisted in the identification of some of the figured 

 specimens. 



The majority, and probably the whole, of the figures are reversed. 

 Some of them have been so much restored that the identification of 

 the originals is attended with great difficulty. That they did not 

 entirely meet with the approval of Professor Blanford is evident from 

 Salter's remark at the end of the author's descriptions (p. 88) that 

 reads as follows : " Since this was in type the figures have been 

 corrected (as far as the state of the lithographic stones would allow) 

 in conformity with Professor Blanford's instructions. — J. W. S." 



In the first volume of his work entitled " Illustrations of Indian 

 Zoology ; chiefly selected from the collection of Major-General 

 Hardwicke," published in 1830-32, J. E. Gray figured on plate c 

 four figures of three species of Ammonites which he named 

 Amm. Nepaidensis (figs. 1, 2), A. Wallichii (fig. 3), and A. tenuistriata 

 (fig. 4). According to the legend on the plate, which is stated 

 to have been " published [in] 1829," they all came from " Sulgranees, 

 Nepaul." ^ Three of these specimens, viz., the originals of figs. 1, 3, 

 and 4, are in the British Museum collection [No. C. 5052 = 

 A. Nepaidensis ; C. 5041 = A. Wallichii; and C. 5051 = A. tenui- 

 striata^, but the fourth, viz. the original of fig. 2 (A. Nepaulensis) , 



J G. C. Crick: Proc. Make. Soc, vol. v, part 4 (April, 1903), p. 286. 



- Compare, for example, in the two sets, pi. xi, figs. Ic, 2c; pi. xiii, fig. la; 

 pi. XV, fig. la; pi. xvi, figs, la, '2a; pi. xvii, figs. 2a, b; pi. xxi, fig. lb. 



^ Eespectiug the locality of these Ammonites Dr. W. T. Blauford, who was for 

 many years connected with the Geological Survey of India, writes (Proc. Malac. Soc, 

 vol. V, No. 6, October, 1903, p. 345) : — " So far as I am aware, no such place as 

 ' Sulgranees ' is known, and I may add that it is very doubtful whether the 

 Ammonites represented in the ' Illustrations ' came originally from Nepal at all ; 

 it is more probable they were brought from further west, from the region whence 

 Ammonites have been supplied to India in all probability for ages. It is certain 

 that there has long been an importation of small Ammonites into India from the 

 Tibetan side of the Himalayas, chiefiy from the Spiti district, N.N.E. of Simla, or 

 from the neighbourhood of the Niti pass, north of Knmauu. These Ammonites, 

 together with certain other stones, are known to Hindus by the name of ' Saligram.' 

 I think it is probable that this name, slightly modified and written Siclffranees, has 

 been mistaken for the locality of the fossils." 



