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volcano of Denodhar, in Cutch, to amuse future Indian geologists. At 

 least one-half of the fossils collected by Vicary, and perhaps by others, 

 appear to have been labelled ' Hala range/ and all hope of discovering 

 whence they were obtained is consequently lost. Even within the last 

 few years I have heard some of my own collections described as from the 

 Hala range ' by European geologists. 



An earlier paper of Vicary's, entitled a " Geological Report on a 

 portion of the Beloochistan hills/' ' refers to the ranges north of Jacoba- 

 bad inhabited by the Bugti and Marri tribes. This tract is beyond 

 the area described in the present memoir. 



The only two contributions of any great importance to the geology of 



Sind besides Vicary's are, the first mainly, the 

 Carter, 1844-1861- ■ " , . 



second purely, compilations, so tar as the geology 

 itself is concerned, the only important original work in both being 

 palseontological. The first of these is contained in a series of papers by 

 Dr. H. J. Carter, published, for the most part, in the Journal of the 

 Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. It will be as well to 

 notice these papers in order. The earliest, entitled " Geological observa- 

 tions on the composition of the hills and alluvial soil from Hyderabad, in 

 Sind, to the mouth of the river Indus," 2 published in 1844, merely contains 

 a few notes on the rocks, and is accompanied by poor figures of a few 

 fossils, Nautili, Nummulites, Sfc. The next paper, " On Foraminifera, 

 their organization, and their existence in a fossilized state in Arabia, Sindh, 

 Kutch, and Khattyawar," 3 appeared in 1849. This paper relates solely 

 to the structure of the organisms described, and in no way treats of 

 their geological relations. Omitting notice of some other papers on Fora- 

 minifera, the next in order is a short " Note on the pliocene deposits of 

 the shores of the Arabian Sea," 4 published in ] 853. Some specimens of 

 the " strata from the neighbourhood of the harbour " at Karachi, collected 

 by Major Turner, showed that the rock consisted of blue clay, with lignite, 



1 Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc, 1846, ii, p. 260. 



2 Jour. B. Br. Roy. As. Soc, ii, pp. 40—43. 



3 Jour. B. Br. Roy. As. Soc, iii, part I, pp. 158—173. 



4 Jour. B. Br. Roy. 4s, Soc, iv, pp. 445—448. 



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