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The Ti-avancore beds consist of blue clays with intercalated lia«nites and 

 mineral resin (in olive-brown earth) resting upon blue-green o-rittv 

 argillaceous limestone^ containing Orbitolites {malaharica) and shells 

 whose unquestionably Eocene character was pointed out by Dr. Carter. 

 Some of these shells, as Strombus Fortisi, CerifMum rude, Ranella Bufo^ 

 Cassis sculpt%, Valuta jugosa, Conus catenulatus, and C. marginatus occur 

 in the Eocene beds in Sind and Cutch, and, with the exception of the 

 first, are figured in Colonel Grant's paper on the Geology of Cutch.* 



No mention is made either by Dr. Carter, or General Cullen, or 

 Mr. Wilkinson of the nature of the fruits and leaves either from 

 Travancore or from Eatnagiri ; they occur, therefore, probably in too 

 imperfect a condition to be determinable. 



It is highly desirable that more information should be obtained 

 about this very interesting (Eocene ?) formation, and further researches 

 by the residents at Ratnagiri and by others in other parts of the South 

 Konkan are earnestly invited. 



* See Memoir to illustrate Geological Map of Cutch by Captain C. W. Grant, Bombay 

 Engineers, Transactions of the Geological Society of London (Second Series), Vol, V, 

 page 289, or the reprint in Dr. Carter's Geological papers on Western India, p, 403. See 

 also D'Archiac and Haime's ' Description des animaux fossiles du groupe nummulitique de 

 rinde,' in which most of the species named above are well figured. 



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