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1840 described in Capt. Grant's paper on the geology of Cutch* some plant- 

 remains from beds, which are at present known to be the highest of the 

 Jurassic rocks in Cutch (Kach). Among these were two species of 

 Ptilopfiyllum, a fossil very characteristic of the upper groups of the Gond- 

 wana system. The animal fossils were described by Sowerby, some of which 

 as was shown later, came also from the highest Jurassic beds. An addition 

 to these latter was made by Capt. W. Smee.f In a paper on recent and 

 fossil cycadese 1841 % Professor Morris again describes the two species of 

 Ftilophyllum from India. In Professor lingers* " Genera et species planta- 

 rum fossilium" (1850) we also find all the species of Indian Gondwana 

 plants, known up to that date, although some of them were differently 

 classed. In 1850 appeared also Dr. McClelland's Report on the Geological 

 Survey of India, 1848-49 ; as it, however, was not published under the 

 present arrangement of the Geological Survey, I quote it amongst these 

 papers. It contains figures of plants from the upper and the lower (coal- 

 bearing) groups of the Gondwana system, amongst the latter, several forms 

 of great interest (as ascertained later by the originals) but the drawings 

 are so utterly wrong, that the figures are of absolutely no use for those who 

 cannot compare the originals. The most interesting fossil was the Zamia 

 burdwanensis, which from the original specimen proved to be really a 

 Zamieae of the JPteropJiyllum-tribe. 



Sir P. Egerton described in 1851 § a fossil fish (Lepidotus) from the 

 tableland of the Deccan, in the Peninsula of India collected by Col. Sykes, 

 to which in 1853 another species was added by Mr. Bell|| and in 1857 two 

 species again by Sir P. Egerton.^" 



Of much greater importance were the labours of the late Rev. Mr. 

 Hislop, in the Gondwana rocks of the vicinity of Nagpur. He collected 

 first the very interesting Ceratodus teeth, which were afterwards described 

 by the late Dr. Oldham,* * he collected a reptilian skull near Mangli, south 

 of Nagpur, which was described by Professor Owen as Brachyops laticepsrff 

 and he also collected numerous fossil plants near Nagpur, (Kamthi), Bharat- 

 wada, Silewara and Mangli, which were described by Sir Charles Bunbury in 

 1861. J J Of the many papers by Mr. Hislop I need only mention those 



* Transact. Geol. Soc. Lond. Ser. 2, Vol. V. 

 t Transact. Geol. Soc. Lond. Vol. V, 2d. Ser. 

 X Ann. and Mag. Nat. H. Vol. VII, p. 110. 

 § Qu. J. Geol. Soc, London, Vol. VII, p. 272, pi. XV. 

 j| Qu. J. Geol. Soc. London, Vol. IX, p. 351. 

 If Ibidem, Vol. X, p. 371. 



** Mem. Geol. Surv. of India, Vol. I, 296, et seq. Plates. 

 ft Qu. J. G. Soc. Lond. Vol. XI, p. 37, PI. II. 

 U Ibidem Vol. XVII, p. 325, seq. Pis. VIH-XII. 



