THE 



QUARTERLY JOURNAL 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OE LONDON. 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 



April 28, 1847. 

 The following communications were read : — 



1. Introduction to a Second Memoir o/Capt. Vicary on the Geology 

 of parts of ^i^D^. By Sir R. I. Murchison, G.C.St.S., F.G.S., 

 F.R.S. 



Geologists are indebted to the enterprising and lamented Burnes 

 for the first general sketch of the structure of the region watered by 

 the Indus. In subsequent years we were furnished with more detailed 

 information by Capt. Grant, who, collecting fossils in the Run of 

 Cutch, gave us the means of ascertaining that in addition to the 

 nummulitic and conglomerate rocks partially described by Burnes, 

 other portions of that tract were of Jurassic or Oolitic age (Oxford 

 clay, &c.). 



When the brilliant victories gained by Sir Charles Napier added 

 Sinde to the British possessions, that officer resolved to ascertain more 

 precisely the geological structure and real mineral condition of the 

 new province. Having driven back the Belooches into their moun- 

 tains, he directed Capt. Vicary, whom he selected for the purpose, to 

 prepare a report on the geological relations of these tracts, which^ 

 with the exception of the partial and rapid journeys of Pottinger, 



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