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June 20. — John, Earl of Shrewsbury, of Great Stanhope Street, 

 May Fair, and of Alton Abbey, Staffordshire ; Robert Allan, Esq. of 

 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh ; W. S. Henwood, Esq. of Perran Wharf, 

 Truro, Cornwall ; and the Rev. John Ward, Vicar of Great Bedwin, 

 Wilts, — were elected Fellows of this Society. 



A Paper was read " On the Geology of Bundelcund, Boghelcund, 

 and the districts of Saugor and Jabalpoor in central India." By 

 Captain James Franklin, of the Bengal Army, F.R.S. F.A.S. 



The tract of country described by the author is a portion of the 

 lowest northern steps of the Vindaya mountains, situated between the 

 latitudes 22° 40", and 25° 20'' N., and the longitudes 78° 30", 

 and 83° E. ; having on its north-eastern extremity the towns of Mir- 

 zapoor and Allahabad, and near its southern limit, those of Tendu- 

 kaira, Singpoor and Mundla. 



In this extent of country the principal situations examined by Cap- 

 tain Franklin were, the pass of Tara in the first range of hills ; the 

 pass of Kattra in the second range ; the cataracts of Billohi, Bauti, 

 Kenti, Chachye, and of the Tonse river ; the neighbourhood of the 

 villages of Simmereah, Hathee, Birsingpur, Sohawel, Nagound, and 

 Lohargaon ; the bed of the Cane" river near Tigra ; the neighbour- 

 hood of Hatta, Narsing-hagarh, Patteriya, Saugor, Tendukaira ; the 

 valley of the Nermada river ; Garha-kota, Great Deori ; the Bandair 

 and Kymur hills ; Jabalpoor, and the waterfall of Beragurh. 



The succession of formations observed by the author consisted, 

 in a descending order : — 1. Of diluvial deposits. — 2. Of overlying 

 rocks of the trap formation. — 3. Of a compact limestone. — 4. Of 

 red-sandstone. — And, lastly, 5. Of primitive rocks, including granite, 

 gneiss, &c. The Paper is illustrated by a geological map and sec- 

 tion of the country ; and the author particularly wishes to direct the 

 attention of geologists to the limestone of the second range of hills, 

 which he is of opinion corresponds with the lias-limestone of En- 

 gland, a formation which has not hitherto been shown to exist in 

 India. 



Having commenced his route at Mirzapoor on the Ganges, — in a 

 district covered with alluvium reposing in some places on beds of 

 " Canker," in others on sandstone, the author ascended the first 

 range of hills at the pass of Tara. These hills are composed of fine- 

 grained sandstone horizontally stratified, and more or less coloured 

 by red oxide of iron ; the rock appears to be saliferous, and is in 

 many places quarried for architectural purposes ; and it seems to cor- 

 respond with the central portion of the new-red-sandstone of En- 

 gland. 



At the pass of Kattra, near the summit of the second range of hills, 

 a friable variegated sandstone appears, in which thin laminae of sand- 

 stone alternate with red clay, resembling the red marie of England, 

 both reposing on slaty marie coloured by chlorite, which rests, appa- 

 rently, on massive horizontal strata, resembling clay-slate or grau- 

 wacke. 



At the bottom of the cataract of Billohi, 398 feet in height, argilhu 

 ceous sandstone was found, tinged deeply by red oxide of iron, and 



