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i& the plane of bedding and not in tlie slaty fracture, but it is tolerably 

 evident from the description^ that Captain Dangerfield fell into the not 

 uncommon mistake of eonfounding- dendritic markings with impressions 

 of ferns. Not long ago a number of similar specimens from the Bundair 

 sandstone were placed as fossil ferns in one of the exhibitions held in the 

 Central Provinces. 



Captain Franklin'^ speaking of the Bundair limestone remarks 

 ^' at Nagound (Nagode), in the bed of the Omeron river, its lower and 

 central beds are exposed to view, containing fragments of fossil 

 wood, also fragments of stems of ferns, and one piece exhibited what I 

 took for an impression of the gryphite shell.'^ Franklin's specimens 

 having been long since lost, no means exist of testing their genuineness. 

 Jaquemont was afterwards induced by his paper to search at Nagode for 

 fossils, but without success. Mr. H. B. Medlicott also visited the X)lace 

 in 1856, and observed certain markings bearing a resemblance to organic 

 forms, but he was inclined to doubt their being such in reality. His views 

 regarding them and FrankliD.'s specimens may be found in the Memoirs 

 of the Survey, Vol. II. p. 53, 



Mr. J. Hardie also, in his sketch of the Geology of Central India,t 

 states that organic remains are numerous in the limestone of Neemuch. 

 He was not, however, able to refer any of them with certainty to any 

 particular genus, though he makes some suggestions on the subject, 

 it is not possible to determine them from the figures and descriptions 

 he gives of three of them, and it indeed seems more than doubtM 

 whether they be organisms at all. In the sandstone of that country, 

 Mr. Hardie observed no fossils except one specimen, which appeared 

 to him " to be the impression of a portion of a cryptogamus plant.'' 

 A very strange structure is also often observable on the weathered 

 surface of the Dholpur (Bundair) limestone, but there is tha same 

 difficulty in arriving at any definite conclusion as to its being organic 



* Asiatic Researches, Vol. XVIII, p. 28. 

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