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the geology by the author. Several of these additions and corrections 

 refer to Sind ; but all are embodied in the second edition of Dr. Carter's 

 summary of the geology of India, which has already been noticed. 



In the " Descriptive catalogue of the fossil remains of vertebrata from 

 the Sewalik hills, &c., in the Museum of the Asiatic Society of Bengal/' by 

 Dr. H. Falconer and Dr. Walker, pages 256 to 259, 

 several specimens of bones and teeth of mastodon, 

 rhinoceros, crocodiles, &c, are enumerated from Sind. Apparently the 

 history of these specimens could not be traced in the Society's Journal, 

 for the reference to the volume and page has been left without the 

 numbers being filled in, and no notice of any Sind fossils can be found 

 in Piddington's Index to the Geological, Mineralogical, and Palseonto- 

 logical papers. The specimens are said to have been presented by 

 Dr. Young through Dr. Spilsbury, to have been brought from " Sehwan, on 

 the north side of the Jukkeo (? Laki) hills,'-' and to have been found in 

 a low range of sandstone breccia composed of angular pieces of nummu- 

 litic limestone cemented with clay. The collection was probably part 

 of the same as that noticed in the preceding paragraph. The only 

 species identified was Mastodon latidens. 



Two notices published in 1861 refer to the discovery of lignite at Leilan, 

 or Lynyan, near Kotri. The first occurs in a second series of " Contribu- 

 tions to the Geology of Western India, including Sind and Belooehistan," 

 by Dr. Carter (Jour. B. Br. Eoy. As. Soc, vi, page 



Carter, 1861. 



182), and is entitled " Discovery of coal deposits in 

 the Lyneah valley, Sind," by Captain F. Phillips. The note, however, is 

 evidently written by Dr. Carter. It contains sections by Mr. Inman of the 

 rocks on the sides of the valley in which the so-called coal was found, and of 

 the shafts sunk to cut the seam. Dr. Carter comments on the uncon- 

 formity shown in Mr. Inman's section between the nummulitic limestone 

 and the beds associated with the lignite, and evidently doubts whether 

 any such unconformity exists, — a doubt, it may be added, which has 

 been perfectly justified by the result of further examination of the 

 ground. He also points out the close similarity between the beds under- 

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