4 BLANFORD : GEOLOGY OF NifiPlJE. 



Additional papers were published by Mr. Hislop " On the connexion 

 of the Umret Coal Beds with the plant beds of Nagpur^ and of both 

 with those- of Burdwan" in Quart. Jour., Geol. Soc, Lond., 1855, vol. xi, 

 p. 555 ; " On the ages of the coal strata in Western Bengal and Central 

 India," — Joui-., As. Soc, Bengal, 1855, vol. xxiv, p. 347 ; On the tertiary- 

 deposits associated with trap rock in the East Indies, with descriptions of 

 the fossil shells, &C.,-'' — Quart. Jour., Geol. Soc, Lond., 1860, vol. xvi, 

 p. 154 j " On the age of the fossihferous thin-bedded sandstone and coal of 

 the province of Nagpur, India," — Ibid, 1861, vol. xvii, p. 346; Remarks 

 on the Geology of Nagplir, — Jour., Bombay Br. R. A. S., 1861, vol. vi, 

 p. 194; "Supplemental Note on, the plant-bearing Sandstones of 

 Central India," — Quart. Jour., Geol. Soc., 1862, vol, xviii, p. 36, and 

 finally, " Extracts from letters relating to the further discovery of fossil 

 teeth and bones of Reptiles in Central India," — Ibid, 1864, vol. xx, p. 380. 

 These communications, each of which announced some addition to 

 the previous knowledge of the geology or the fossil remains found in 

 the country, were only interrupted by the writer^s untimely death, by 

 drowning, in 1863. 



A Labyrinthodont amphibian found at Mangli by Mr. Hislop was 



described by Prof. Owen as BracMops laticeps in 1854, — Quart. Jour., 



Geol. Soc, vol. xi, p. 37 ; some entomostraca 

 Owen: 1854, . • i t. f t. 



tertiary and mesozoic by Prof. Rupert Jones, — 



md, vol. xvi, p. 186, and vol. xix, p. 149 ; tertiary insects by Mr. Andrew 

 Jones: Murray: Bun- Murray,-I5«^, vol. xvi, p. 183; and, lastly, the 

 l5ii'J' plants from Kamthi and Silewada by Sir C. F. 



Bunbury, — Ibid, vol. xvii, p. 325. 



The following is a brief review of the rocks around Nagpur according 

 to Mr. Hislop's classification as amended in his latest writings :— 



I. — Superficial formations : — 1, black soil, or regur; 2, red soil. 

 II. — Brown clay. 

 III.— Laterite. 

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