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Section K (Botany). 

 A. C. Seward, F.B.S., and E. N. Arher. — Fossil Nipa Fruits from 



Belgium. 

 Miss Margaret Benson, D.Sc. — The Seed - like Fructification of 



Miadesmia membranacea (Bertrand), a Lycopodiaceous Plant from 



the Coal-measures. 

 A Possible Calymmatotheca type of Fructification showing 



Structure. 

 James Lomax. — On some New Features in Eelation to Lyginodendron 



Oldhamium. 

 Dr. D. IT. Scott, F.B.S. — Sporangiophores as a clue to Affinities 



among the Pteridophyta. 

 Miss Sihille 0. Ford. — Notes on the Morphology and Past History 



of the Araucarieae. 

 James Lomax. — On the Occurrence of the Nodular Concretions (Coal 



Balls) in the Lower Coal-measures. 

 Professor F. W. Oliver, D.Sc. — On Ancient and Modern Seeds. 



III. — Fossils from Cretaceous Strata in the Salt Eange. By 

 Professor H. G. Seeley, F.R.S., V.P.G.S.i 



HITHERTO there has been no evidence of Cretaceous strata in the 

 Salt Range of the North of India. But Mr. Ernest G. Eraser, 

 formerly of the Punjab Civil Service, has found many species of the 

 type or age of the Upper Greensand. In 1893 he crossed the Salt 

 Range and made a collection, placed in my hands, in which are 

 the usual Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary types indicated by 

 Mr. Wynne. But in addition are typical Cretaceous species in 

 limestone. Among the more abundant are Spondylus costulatus 

 (Stol), Spondylus calcaratiis (Forbes) , Sinnites andoorensis, and Lucina 

 arcotina. The specimens are in good preservation, and weathered out 

 from the rock. They are from the shoulder of Sekasar. Mr. Eraser 

 did not draw a section ; but the fossils which are deposited in the 

 Royal Indian Engineering College show that the section must have 

 been similar to those given by Mr. A. B. Wynne, except that 

 Mr. Eraser had the good fortune to find Cretaceous fossils below 

 the Tertiary strata. This northward extension of the fossils suggests 

 that the Indian Cretaceous sea may possibly have been continuous 

 with that of Central Asia, though the beds described by Dr. F. 

 Schmidt in Siberia have fossils of a Gault type which has not yet 

 been recognised in the Salt Range of India. 



IV. — Preliminary Note on a Carboniferous Fish Fauna from 

 Victoria, Australia. By A. Smith Woodward, LL.D., F.R.S., 

 of the British Museum.^ 



THE researches of Dr. Traquair have proved that in Britain there 

 is a definite succession of Devonian and Carboniferous fish 

 faunas. When sufficiently well - preserved fossils are available, 

 these faunas can be readily distinguished and recognised, and they 



1 Abstract of a paper read before the British Association, Belfast, Sept., 1902, in 

 Section C (Geology). 



2 Eead before the British Association, BeKast, Sept., 1902, in Section C (Geology). 



