1921.] The Eighth Indian Science Congress. elv 
T have hitherto referred only to the plant-remains of the 
Gondwana System of India. While these undoubtedly form 
the bulk of the Indian collections there still remain to be men- 
tioned a véry considerable number of plants of Tertiary and 
Post-Tertiary age. Numerous references to these will be found 
come from the Karewa deposits of Kashmir (Godwin-Austen 
1864 ; Middlemiss 1911) and other beds of Tertiary age in the 
Punjab, Sind, Baluchistan (H. B. Medlicott 1864; Feistmantel 
1882 ; Vredenburg 1908 ; Pilgrim 1908), Burma (Theobald 1869 ; 
Holland 1909, p. 46; Cotter 1908, 1909; Stuart 1910; Pilgrim 
1910; Holden 1916), Assam (Seward 1912!) and the Bombay 
Presidency (Wynne 1868, 1869; W. T. Blanford 1872). Lastly, 
mention may also be made of the geologically quite recent 
submerged forests on the island of Bombay and on the Tinne- 
velli coast, which almost bring us to the history of our own 
times (W. T. Blanford 1878; H. B.-Medlicott 1881 - La Touche 
tion in the seque ; 
Middle Carboniferous of the European stratigraphical scale. 
of so-called impressions, however, it is possible, after suitable 
treatment, to make out the structure of the epidermal layer in 
