exeviii Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XV, 
Hills and sontans the most elevated ranges and hills of Travancore, 
Anamala, the highest peak, rising to about 9,000 fee Ransee sea-level. 
West of this lies the zone of residual a a rising ec ven mo 0 
feet above sea-level and sloping gently towards the t. mes 
the zone of sedimentary beds known as the Warkala "(Warkal beds. 
Finally there is a coastal zone ashe seat of “see er d river mouths, 
which a few centuries ago a miniature Sunder 
he author takes the opportanity ed iscussing the agra of the 
word laterite and also gives an account of the oce n Travancore 
of deposits of monazite, gtiphite, chon, Pre of watphiaies “of iron and 
copper. 
Sedimentary origin of the Dharwars.—By A. GHOSE. 
The author taro to the dive — views at present held by Indian 
gotlowtets concerning the origin of the rocks of the Dharwar formation 
According to th geologists of Mysore, those rocks are, without exception, 
h conglomerates ; oo accord- 
ing to investigations carried out in other parts Py India, many members 
iron-ores and manganese ores, and a to certain markings on p yllites 
from Sandur, which may possibly be either tracks or impressions of 
organisms. 
Note on “ gohas le prmed by the burning of Coalseams.— 
By L. L. FER 
In a note read sant ae s Mining and perenne rbot . India a 
athens account has been of ¢ ocks and 
breccias produced by the fus' “ai oe gfe shales ana scotia aeociated 
wit ams, whos he latter catch fire at the outcrop 
scopic study of the ks has s een carried out and has revealed 
sence of cordierite, sillimanite, fayalite, ibe plagioclase, 
and iron- mate typically as porphyritic crystals in a glassy base. There 
these k 
are many varieties of rocks dependent on the omg aerac toe 
the material tg aves he o fusion; but, oe ge ack they m 
be described as vitroph ket qualified nam 8 sha inet 
perenne such as siuilac tevieeoihers se anatase ieiileyre 
A peculiar limestone ey South aa” K. Re 
Krisuna Iyer and 1. C. Coacko 
The authors describe a peculiar limestone from the Aramboly Pass 
in South Travanco cae The rock contains from 4 to 60% of raghalenag 
e i ins 
garnet, quar iron-ores. The issi uw 
and appears to have been formed in the belt of weathering by the meta- 
somatic Bes. gga by means of calcium carbonate of the felspars of an 
original leptynite. 
On the remains of carnivorous rage from the Lameta 
oe at g pabbalpors, —By C. A. Mat 
Since ouncement at the last Congress of the discovery of 
bones of ———— (sauropod) and carnivorous (theropod) dinosaurs 
near Jubbulpore the author has made another brief visit to the locality 
