1918.] The Fifth Indian Science Congress. elxxxv 
bearing pegmatite at the Ei and in the panclninieingy es to be very large 
and a pgs eee ae The data furnished by the working test 
showed that, employi - es for 10 days at a cost of Rs. 178 for 
wages, explos ve Sapam. fe si coal. there were extracted 136 tolas weight o 
A 1 guality, ele and ‘lent, re tolas of Ist quality, both these being 
suitable for ie ci into facetted gems; and '180 tolas of 2nd quality, 
translucent and suitable for mnie pe a into brooches, buttons, 
e 
The first two Neg are ot good water and delicate, though pale, 
tints, and are value annas and 2 annas a — respectively, i in the 
rough uncut state. “The ce la a baie reckoned at the results al- 
together show a large margin of valuable material cabesbie for defraying 
supervision charges, os ~— and as profit, sufficient to promise 
well for the future of the m 
On the discovery of Upper Paleozoic Fossils in the “ar 
beds of the Simla region. —By E. Vrepenpure and H. 
Das Gupta. 
Much difficulty was for along time experienced in classifying and 
eetng the pre-tertiary sedimentary formations of the southern 
Himalaya have been regarded as o ivan to the unfossiliferous pre- 
b s of th i nsequ i er: 
Supposed, of late, that the Blaini boulder-bed may be much older than 
the Talchir. Mr. Gupta’s discovery of upper palzozoic. fossils in the Krol 
beds, amongst habe is a Chonetes of the group laevis, finally confirms 
Idham’s correlat 
Se regarding a possible relationship between 
ae  ahaam ba c and the Dharwars.—By E. VREDEN- 
In ¢ i ge attention is drawn to the possibility of regarding 
charnockites rphosed representatives of the scans wis dtr 
of the Bhardacs The latter are known, in some instances, to have been 
formed into granulites resembling the charnockites, while the wren 
nockites in some of their outcrops exhibit a distinctly bed 
and are associated ro ——— rocks characteristic of the Dharwar saben 
anded 
The dis seitoemnay is an shacsookite and Dharwar outcrops, egg 
ne another over large , and never intermi , suggests ri red 
wo di ingle formati The 
™m o 
acreage an Fk illimanite-schists) also recalls the inter- 
f — A entaries observed in many typical outcrops 
vlboon Dharwars. Tt is agp amc a suggested that the Khondalites = 
— metamorphosed Dharwar sedimentaries in the same way as the 
atnockites are thought to represent the Dharwar volcanics. 
Satine regarding the mechanism of the “ charriages.”” 
The large scale displacements of vast slices of rocks across great 
hori ontal distances hia characterize the structure of ‘he. ere and 
