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portions of jaws and vevtebrce of Giraffe, Binotherium and of a 

 new mammalian genus allied to the SivatJierkm, which he called 

 Bramatherinm. 



Meantime but little had been added to the knowledge of the geo- 

 logy of Eastern Guzerat. FulljameSj in 1838^ [a) described a visit, made in 

 1832, to the Cornelian mines so often mentioned, but his observations add 

 nothing to those of Copeland and Lush. There is a notice in the 

 Journal of the Bombay Branch Royal Asiatic Society {b) of the present- 

 ation to the Society by Dr. Malcolmson of a 

 Malcolmson, 1844. 



silicified palm tree, and of the lower jaw of a 



Mastodon discovered at Peermocha near Broach. They were found, it 

 is said, in a marine tertiary conglomerate. If this be correct, the 

 discovery is very interesting, as proving the existence near Broach of a 

 series of rocks higher than the nummulitics. 



Dr. Malcolmson^s untimely death in 1844 prevented his observations 

 on the Geology of Guzerat from becoming known, and his notes and paper 



appear to have been lost. Dr. Carter, in his ' Sum- 

 Carter, 1854. 



mary of the Geology of India,^ [c) first called at- 

 tention to the existence of nummulitic limestone in the western 

 portion of the Bajpeepla hills. The localities are in fact west of 

 the hills, though withia the territory of Bajpeepla. In the notes 

 to the 2nd edition of this ' Summary' published in the ' Geological 

 Papers on Western India' {d) some additional details are given. 

 Dr. Carter looked upon the conglomerate of Buttunpoor as a probable 

 representative of the Perim beds and as being an old beach, chiefly 

 formed of rounded flints from the amygdaloidal rocks. With regard 

 to the origin of the agates he is unquestionably correct : the relation 

 of the conglomerates of Buttunpoor to those of Perim, however, is 

 still undetermined. 



(«). Fulljauies, 1838, Trans. Bomb. Geog. Soc, II, 74. (6). Vol. I, p. 366. 

 (f). Jour. Bom. Br. K, A. S., Vol. V, p. 248. (rf). P. 696. 



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