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contemporaneous strata of Chandd, eighty miles south of Nagpur. 

 None of these specimens, however, were preserved, nor was anything 

 further done by us or by others to understand the palaeontology of 

 this part of India, until June 1851, when, walking with my fellow- 

 labourer in the neighbourhood of our residence, two or three Physas 

 in a deposit enclosed in a trap hill about a mile west of Sitabaldi, 

 and two miles in the same direction from Nagpur, forced themselves 

 on my notice. They were at once referred to the fossils which 

 Voysey and Malcolmson had discovered in a similar situation, and 

 the deposit in which they occur was identified with the freshwater 

 formation that they had traced in several parts of the Nizam's terri- 

 tory, and at Chikni and Hinghanghat in this state. In a few days 

 after, at the same spot, I found the first bone, and Mr. Hunter the 

 first tooth ; and, after a week or two, on Takli Plain, about 2| miles 

 N.W. of Nagpur, I met with the first Fruit and Entomostracan. 

 About the same time, from observing the traces of ancient vege- 

 tation on the soft clayey sandstone, used m the absence of chalk for 

 whitening the writing-boards in our Mission schools, I was led to 

 make inquiries about the locality from which it was brought, which 

 ended in the discovery of Glossopteris and Phyllotheca and some 

 seeds or seed-vessels at Bokhara, six miles north of Nagpur. Ere 

 long we were joined by our friend Capt. Wapshare, Judge Advocate 

 of the Nagpur Subsidiary Force, who added many valuable vegetable 

 remains to our collection ; and it is to his able and generous efforts 

 that we owe, among other rare acquisitions, the first palm and the 

 first mulberry-like fruits. From the red shale of Korhadi, seven 

 miles north of Nagpur, I procured tracks of Annelids, and more 

 recently, in combination with them, the foot-marks of some Reptile ; 

 and towards the end of the year, in company with Lieut. Sankey of 

 the Madras Engineers, I visited Silewac?a, twelve miles north of 

 Nagpur, where the sandstone yielded a profusion of rich and most 

 beautiful specimens of Glossopteris, and whence have since been 

 obtained a variety of Exogenous stems, several species of Phyllotheca, 

 and an interesting specimen, contributed by Mr. Hunter, of an allied 

 genus, which by Lindley and Hutton is reckoned an Equisetum, 

 and by Bunbury probably an Asterophyllites* . A Mission tour, 

 undertaken about the same time, conducted my colleague and 

 myself past the freshwater formation at Pahadsingha, forty miles 

 W.N.W. of Nagpur, in v/hich was detected an abundance of fish- 

 scales, dispersed through the stone. On our return, Mr. Hunter, 

 among the seeds and fruits of Takli, discovered the first specimen 

 and the greater part of our fossil Coleoptera ; while we received an 

 accession to our collection of shells from Dr. J. Miller, then of the 

 10th Regt. M. N. I., who, while on an excursion with Dr. Fitz- 

 gerald, had found the freshwater formation at Butara near Mach- 

 hagho<:/a, eighty miles north of Nagpur, and also from Mr. Sankey, 

 who had fallen in with it at Pilkapahad, twenty-five miles to the 

 north-west. The latter-named officer, after discovering in the Kampti 

 quarries the first Vertehraria, a fine species of Phyllotheca, a long 

 * Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. vii. p. 189. 



