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occasionally occur and in vcr}^ large numbers in particular beds near 

 the base of the series. Maleolmson^s notice of their occurrence at Perim 

 has not been confirmed, but it is not likely that so good an observer was 

 mistaken, and it is not at all improbable that they exist. Dr. Lush's 

 conclusion that the trap is of later date than the conglomerates is quite 

 untenable. On the contrary, the constituent materials of the latter appear 

 to have been mainly derived from the waste of the former. 



Dr. Lush appears, by Lieutenant Pulljamcs's account, to have been 

 the first discoverer of the ossiferous beds of Pcrim Island (a) in the Gulf 

 of Cambay. He gives a very brief but accurate description of the rocks 

 of the island, especially mentioning their horizontality, in which he is 

 correct, while later observers, who have supposed the beds to be disturbed, 

 are mistaken, having been misled by their irregular bedding. 



About this time the rocks of Perim appear to have attracted con- 

 siderable attention. They were described by Lieute- 

 Fulljames, 1836. 



nant Pulljames in the Journal of the Asiatic Society 



' of Bengal, {b) his description being accompanied by a note from Baron 



Hugel on some of the fossil bones, a number of 

 Hxigel, 1836. . T T X • 



which were presented by Lieutenatit Pulljames to 



the Society. A fuller account of the geological formations of the island 



was given by Lieutenant Ethersey in the transac- 

 Etherscy, 1838. • r ■, i 



tions of the Bombay Geographical Society (c). 



Nicholson, 1844, ... , . t- . 



His description is good. Agam, Dr. Nicholson, (c?) 

 six years later, described the topography of the island, its rocks, the 

 mode of occurrence of the fossils, &c., in a paper accompanied by maps 

 and a section. Some remarks by Mr. J. Grant Lurasden were included 



in Dr. Nicholson's paper. Lastly, Dr. Falconer, 



T^ilpoTipr XS44* 



in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 



of London, (e) described the more remarkable fossils found, ric, 



(a). Not to bo confounded with the still better known island of the same name in the 

 Eed Sea. (h). Vol. V, p. 289. (c). Vol. II, p. 55. 



(d) Jonnial, Bombay Branch Roy. As. Soc-, Vol. I, p. 10. (e). Vol. I, p. 356, 



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