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amongst oiu's from Muktinath ; moreover, it is one of those described 

 by Oppel as associated in other parts of the Himalayas with species 

 i^A. frequens, etc.) allied to or identical with ours. One of the 

 Ammonites from Nepal, described by Gray in his above-mentioned 

 work, was dedicated to Dr. Wallich [A. Wallichi, pi. C, fig. 3) ; the 

 specimen ^ is in the British Museum collection, and the same 

 species has been recognised by Mr. Crick amongst our fossils from 

 Muktinath. To Mr. Crick I am much indebted for valuable help in 

 the identifications. 



In the Sedgwick Museum Collection from Muktinath there are in 

 all sixty-three specimens, the majority of which are ammonites and 

 belemnites ; and from a preliminary examination of this material it 

 seemed evident to me that they were wrongly referred to the Lias. 

 Having Salter & Blanford's work on the "Palaeontology of Niti " 

 (Calcutta, 1865) at hand, a comparison with the illustrations of 

 Jurassic fossils in that book naturally suggested itself, and then with 

 Oppel's ^gures of Himalayan Cephalopods in his " Palaontologische 

 Mittheilungen " (vol. iv, 1863). Finally Uhlig's uncompleted memoir 

 in the PalcBontologia Indica on the fauna of the Spiti Shales was con- 

 sulted. From these investigations it became obvious that many of the 

 Cephalopods were closel}^ similar to, if not identical with, previously 

 described Upper Jurassic forms from the Himalayas. Mr. G. H. 

 Tipper (of the Geological Survey of India), on seeing the specimens, 

 at once recognised their mode of preservation and lithological characters 

 to be unquestionably identical with that of fossils from the Spiti 

 Shales. At the British Museum I was subsequently enabled with 

 Mr. Crick's kind assistance to make a direct comparison of them with 

 Blanford's type-specimens from ISi^iti, and my views as to the strati- 

 graphical horizon and affinities of the fossils were confirmed by 

 Mr. Crick, who is also of the opinion that many of the species are 

 identical and others closely allied. 



Until Professor Uhlig has completed his researches on the fauna 

 of the Spiti Shales it would be undesirable to attempt a detailed 

 description of this interesting material, but so far as the works of the 

 above quoted authors take us the following genera and species can be 

 recognised : — 



Belemnites cf. sulcatus, Miller. 



The large stout form figured by Blanford under this name (Paloeont. 

 Niti, p. 76, pi. X, figs. 1-7) and the large phragmocones precisely 

 correspond with some of our specimens, but there is also the more 

 slender form named B. Gerardi by Oppel, which Blanford considered 

 a synonym of the present species (Crick, Geol. Mag., Dec. V, Vol. I, 

 1904, p. 64). Boehm's work on the allied species of Belemnites from 

 the Moluccas suggests that more than one species is included under 

 this name. The figures given by Everest - of a belemnite from the 



1 Crick: op. cit., pp. 62, 63 ; and Proc. Malac. Soc, vol. v, No. 4 (April, 1903), 

 p. 286. 



- Everest, Himalayan Fossils, Asiatic Researches : Trans. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 

 vol. xviii (1833), p. 108, pi. i, figs. 16, 17. 



