[To face p. 35. 



CoREiGENDA to the ABSTRACT of Capt. Godwin-Austen's Paper — 

 " Geological Notes on Part of the North-westeen Himalayas," 

 published in Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xx. p. 383-387. 



Page 385, line 29, erase the paragraph commencing As these lime- 

 stones, and ending Ladak and Little Thibet. 



The Nummulitic series occurs, as has been stated at the com- 

 mencement of § 3, p. 385, line 27, on the southern face of the Pir- 

 Pinjal range and close to the older Siwalik rocks, but I have nowhere 

 seen it in the Kashmir valley, and I think it very probable that in 

 ancient days the Nummulitic sea conformed to the base of the pre- 

 sent line of Himalayahs, more or less, and did not extend to the 

 north at all. The limestone near the WuUer Lake, and at the base 

 of the hills on the northern side of the Kashmir valley is undoubt- 

 edly Carboniferous. 



Page 385, line 12 from bottom, the paragraph commencing On the 

 southern slopes up to showing the palates very well, p. 386, line 2, 

 should have come into § 2. The Siwalik Series ; it not being JN^um- 

 mulitic, but the next formation in the series above. 



5. The Carboniferous Series, p. 386, line 14. — It is a little 

 ambiguous, and might lead the reader to suppose that the genera 

 mentioned occurred indiscriminately through the whole mass of the 

 beds up to that and together with the bed containing Goniatites. 

 These, I may mention, contained no other shells that I could find. 



I see it also stated — " These also occur in superposition." Now I 

 should say hardly ever, and never in the Kashmir valley itself. 

 Further east, in Zauskar, Spiti, &c., the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic may 

 do, but not in the mountains to the south, south-east, and east of 

 the vaUey. 



In Mr. Davidson's note on the fossils, p. 387, line 20, it is 

 stated : — "From this rock, at Shigar, near Skardo, Capt. Godwin- 

 Austen obtained six or seven, &c." Now the fossils mentioned were 

 all found in the Carboniferous limestones of the Kashmere_,valley and 

 have no connexion with the very imperfect specimens, said to be Pa- 

 laeozoic, obtained near Skardo. I am afraid the labels on the fossils 

 must have come off, or that by some means they got mixed together. 

 The same must have occurred to the land and freshwater sheUs sent 

 home ; for Helix hispida was obtained in the lacustrine clay of the 

 Kashmere valley, and not from Kuardo near Skardo. Some of the 

 other shells are from other localities, but as I have no duplicates I 

 cannot remember whence they came. 



H. Godwin- Austen. 



Deyrah Dhoon, 

 7th December, 1865. 



