1832.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 249 



These two and the Spirifer striatus are in a stone strongly resembling some of 

 the Transition Slate of England, which contains similar shells. 



4. Astarte planata, var. [Min. Con. tab. cclvii.] Inferior Oolite. 



A variety of this shell is found at Bayeux in Normandy, and is called Crassi- 

 na modiolaris. Also an unnamed large bivalve. 



5. Nucula, an unnamed species ; similar fossils occur in the Mountain Lime 

 and Lias. 



7. Strongly resembles a portion of some large Inoceramus, but it is not 

 perfect enough to determine. 



12, 13. Ammonites annulatus Anguinus, of Schlotheim, Zeiten, Verstcinerun- 



genWiirttembergs, t. ix. f. 2. Min. Con. tab. ccxxii. fig. 5, is the same shell. 



Lias formation. The large specimen is filled with sulphate of barytes, not 



carbonate of lime. 



No. 24. Belemnites sulcatus, Sillot, Miller, Trans. Geol. Soc. 2nd series, vol. II. 



pt. 1, pi. 8, fig. 3, 4, and 5. Bel. apiciconus, Blainville's Memoire. Lias, inferior 



Oolite. 



23. Alveolus of a Belemnite, perhaps of B. sulcatus, Orthocera conica of 

 Min. Con. tab. Ix. although called an orthocera, is only an alveolus similar to this. 

 2. The following letter from Dr. Falconer, Superintendent of the Hon. 

 Company's Botanic Garden at Seharanpur, was read. 



Dehra Dun Fossil Remains. 

 To the Editor of the Journal of the Asiatic Society. 

 Sib, 



In No. 3 of the Journal of the Asiatic Society, p. 97, Mr. Royle has 

 announced the discovery by me of the fossil bones in the range of hills which 

 skirts the Valley of Dehra on the south-west. I regret that Mr. Royle 

 did not confine himself to a simple announcement of the fact, without giving an 

 extract from the letter in which it is mentioned. The communication was made 

 immediately after I had met with the fossils, and was an unguarded expression to 

 an intimate friend, of what I imagined them to be, and not an opinion intended 

 for a public Journal in the ipsissima verba of the letter. Beyond, therefore, the 

 fact of fossil bones occurring in these hills, I do not wish to stand responsible for 

 any opinion regarding their specific determination, in the present imperfect state 

 of the inquiry. As yet they have been found in a small quantity only, and consist 

 of a few fragmented portions of bones. The Lignite occurs in great abundance. 

 The " fragmeuts of the shells" (not the skull as stated in the Journal) of Tor- 

 toises resemble those found by Mr. Crawford and Dr. Wallich on the banks of 

 the Irawadi, and others contained in the museum of the Asiatic Society. The 

 " fragment of a bivalve shell" is very imperfect, and therefore very questionable. 



I conceive it necessary to state that Lieut. Cautley, Superintendent of the Doab 

 Canal, is the original discoverer of fossils in these hills. The most perfect por- 

 tion I have yet seen of these fossil bones, has been in his possession several 

 years, without however, his being aware of its nature. 



H. FALCONER. 

 Seharanpur, May 28. 



