NOTICE, 



Dr. Stoliczka, thus indicating an age not newer than Silu- 

 rian " ; and at page 280 he speaks of his tabular series as 

 " comprising thirteen main divisions, of which nine are dis- 

 tinctly referable, each to one of the thirteen principal forma- 

 tions known to geology ; and the ages of four are less accu- 

 rately ascertained." Let this be compared with the state- 

 ment on page 5 of the present memoir — " In chapter III of 

 my report, when describing the stratigraphical series of the 

 Salt-range, I avoided using the word 'formations ' lest it 

 should convey too much of identity with the geological scale 

 elsewhere, calling the sub -divisions instead 'rock- groups.'" 

 It is true the passage quoted from p. 280 of the Salt-range 

 memoir does not occur in chapter III; but Mr. Wynne 

 would hardly claim this evasion ; and he refers to this page 

 himself as supporting his contradiction of Dr. Waagen's state- 

 ment that the local divisions were treated in the Salt-range 

 memoir as " real formations equal in importance to silurian, 

 devonian, etc.," and the older division " as equivalent to the 

 whole palaeozoic series, as it has been defined in Europe and 

 elsewhere." It seems to me impossible to take Mr. Wynne's 

 account in any other way than that he objects to, The 

 auxiliary use he makes of the term ' rock-group ' does not 

 affect the main position. It is quite clear that the indeter- 

 minate ' rock- groups ' were not called after standard forma- 

 tions, simply because direct evidence was wanting, not from 

 any doubt as to their comparative position in his local 

 palaeozoic series, between a true silurian and a true carboni- 

 ferous horizon ; and Br. Waagen's words can mean no more 

 than this. 



5. Mr. Wynne's complaint of the treatment his work has 

 received in the Manual of the Geology of India is quite on a 

 par with the preceding : the impression regarding the distinct 



