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PROCEEDINGS 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



POSTPONED PAPERS. 



On the Salt Range of the Punjaub. By Dr. Andrew Fleming, 



E.I.C, Assist. Surg. 4th Punjaub Cavalry. [Abstract from 

 Letters'^ addressed to Sir R. I, Murchison, F.R.S., F.G.S.] 



[Read April 7, 1852t.] 



Introductory Observations by Sir R. I. Murchison. — The conquest 

 of the Upper Punjaub has opened out to us the means of becoming 

 better acquainted with the true geological succession of the sediment- 

 ary strata of the peninsula of Hindostan. Already through the 

 writings of Major Vicary, who acquired the greater part of his know- 

 ledge as a soldier employed in active warfare, we were instructed as 

 to the vast extent of those nummulitic limestones which I have 

 classed as Eocene or older tertiary J, as well as of the younger ter- 

 tiary and bone deposits which overlie them§. Major Grant and 

 others have described secondary rocks chiefly of the age of the Ox- 

 ford oolite ; and cretaceous deposits occur at Pondicherry ; but the 

 author of the letters I now communicate to the Society has proved the 



* The 1st Letter, dated, Camp, Murree Hill Station, via Rawal Pindee, Punjaub, 

 May 29, 1851; the 2nd, Kutta, Salt Range, 30 miles W. of Pind Dadun Khan, 

 January 16, 1852 ; and the 3rd Letter (received, together with a collection of 

 fossils and rock-specimens, since the first two letters were read before the Society), 

 dated, Camp, Pind Dadun Khan, March 30, 1852). 



t For the other papers read at this evening's Meeting, see Quart. Journ. Geol. 

 Soc. vol. viii. p. 225. 



X See Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. v. p. 303. The work by M. d'Archiac on 

 the Nummulitic Formation of India, just published, gives a full description of the 

 various forms of Indian Nummulites and a notice of their associated shells, &c. 



§ See also Major Vicary's paper on the Subathoo Range, supra, p. 70. 



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