1845.] BUCKLAND ON ROLLED NODULES. lOS 



amber exhibit only a generic identity with existing plants and ani- 

 mals, and are not specifically the same. The most nearly allied 

 forms occur sometimes in the same district, but more frequently in 

 North America. Several of the species exhibit, however, no analo- 

 gies with known forms. 



3. Notice of an Earthquake and a probable Subsidence of the Land 

 in the district o/*Cutch, near the mouth of the Koree, or Eastern 

 branch of the Indus, in Ju7ie 1845. Extracted from a Letter to 

 Capt. Nelson, R.E. 



[Communicated by the President.] 



" One of Capt. M'^Murdo's guides was travelling on foot to him from 

 Bhooj. The day he reached Luckput there were shocks of an 

 earthquake, which shook down part of the walls of the fort, and 

 some lives were lost. At the same time as the shock the sea rolled 

 up the Koree (the eastern) mouth of the Indus, overflov/ing the 

 country as far westward as the Goongra river (a distance of twenty 

 English miles), northward as far as a little north of Veyre (forty 

 miles from the mouth of the Koree), and eastward to the Sindree 

 Lake. The guide was detained six days (from June 19th to 25th), 

 during which time sixty-six shocks were counted. He then got 

 across to Kotree, of which only a few small buildings on a bit of 

 rising ground remain. Most of the habitations throughout the di- 

 strict must have been swept away, the best houses in Scinde being 

 built of sun-dried bricks, and whole villages consisting only of huts 

 made of a few crooked poles and reed mats. The guide travelled 

 twenty miles through water on a camel, the water up to the beast's 

 body. Of Lak nothing was above water but a Fakeer's pole (the 

 flagstaff always erected by the tomb of some holy man) ; and of 

 Veyre and other villages only the remains of a few houses were to 

 be seen. 



" There are said to be generally two earthquakes every year at 

 Luckput. The Sindree Lake has of late years become a salt marsh." 



4. On the Occurrence of Nodules (called Petrified Potatoes) found on 

 the Shores o/" Lough Neagh in Ireland. By the Very Rev. Dr. 

 Buckland, F.R.S. &c. &c., Dean of Westminster. 



The author stated that these peculiar nodules seem to be limited in 

 their occurrence to the space between high and low water on the 

 margin of Lough Neagh. Their average size is from two to throe 

 inches in diameter ; they are irregularly spherical or suboval, with 

 the surface occasionally indented. They aie conijjosed of a grey 

 marlstone interspersed with black and green sand. They etferveste 

 with acids. 



