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fossils were said to have been found at the caves of Bagh, where the rocks 

 are unfossiliferous, instead of at Doora and Cherakhan more than twenty- 

 miles further east. Even about the section at Bagh there is some mistake. 

 It is stated to consist of 



Eed argillaceous limestones and clay strata . . . 15 — 20 feet. 

 Sandstone ... ... ... ... 100 „ 



whereas no red argillaceous limestone is found about Bagh : the lime- 

 stone which occurs there being a whitish nodular stone. 



Dr. Oldham, who had also received some fossils with the details of 



their discovery from Captain Keatinge, gave brief 

 Oldham, 1858. .. « , , • . , ,. . 



notices 01 tneir occurrence m two publications {a) at 



least and published a full aecoimt in the Journal of the Asiatic Society 



of Bengal (d) shortly after. In this he pointed out some of the mistakes 



into which Dr. Carter had been led, and questioned if sufficient data had 



yet been obtained for assigning the beds definitely to the Neocomian or 



any other sub-division of the cretaceous series, while he confirmed Captain 



Keatinge^s assignment of the rocks to a portion of that series. 



Mr. Impey, in the Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal 



Asiatic Society (c) gave a description of the caves 

 Impey, 1856. 



of Bagh, which contains some notices of the rocks 



occurring in the neighbourhood. 



It is unnecessary to do more than mention the descriptions by the 

 Medlicott : Theobald, ^^*® ^^- ^- ^- Medlicott and Mr. Theobald of the 

 ■^^^^* country to the eastward of that now surveyed in 



the 2nd Volume of these Memoirs. 



The last paper on this tract which requires notice is a very valu- 

 able contribution to Asiatic palaeontology by 

 Duncau, 1865. i bJ J 



Dr. Martin Duncan, who published a list of the 

 Echinodermata from Bagh, together with some from the south-east coast 



(a). Jour., Mad. Lit. & Sci. Soc, February 1857: Rep, Brit. Assoc, 1857: Ed. New 

 PhU. Jour., No. 12, p. 320. 



(b). Vol. XXVII, p. 116. (c). Vol. V, p. 543. 



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