1867.] Dr. Verchere on the Geology of Kashmir. 201 



Kashmir, the Western Himalaya and the Afghan Mountains, a 

 Geological paper, by 



Albert M. Verchere, Esq. M. D. 



Bengal Medical Service, with a note on the fossils by 



M. Edouard de Verneuil, 



Membre de l'Academie des Sciences, Paris. 



(Continued from page 115, of No. II. 1867.) 

 In April 1864, I sent a box of fossils, mostly from Kashmir, to 

 Professor Faire, of Geneva. M. Faire kindly forwarded these to M. 

 E. J. de Vernueil, who was good enough to examine them carefully, 

 and to write a most interesting note, of which a translation is now 

 given. 



Some of the fossils represented in the Plates were not sent to Pro- 

 fessor Fairej and some which were sent, are not figured here ; the 

 numbers at the head of some of the paragraphs of M. de Vernueil's 

 note refer to the fossils represented in the Plates. 



Note on the fossils forwarded by Mr. Verchere, by M. Edouard de 

 Vernueil, Member of the Academie des Sciences, Sc. Sc. 



The largest of the two specimens sent, of which the matrix is a 

 dark brown limestone, belongs to the Productus Semireticulatus, 

 (Martin), one of the most characteristic species of the carboniferous lime- 

 stone, in Europe, in Russia and in America. This species has been 

 brought from the south of the Otiral, and Mr. Tchihatcheff has found 

 it in Siberia in the Altai mountains. 



A specimen of Productus costatus (Sowerby). This is a species 

 scarcer than the preceding. The specimen from India shows well the 

 characters of the species such as they are figured by Sowerby, whilst 

 those from Missouri, figured by M. de Konnick, do not possess the 

 large and thick ribs which characterise the original species. The Pro- 

 ductus costatus, first found in England, does not exist in Continental 

 Europe, except in Russia where I found it in the government of Toula. 

 Some Russian authors mention it from the government of Tiver and 

 of Kalonga. 



Productus Humboldti (D'Orbjgny). This species is very like P. 

 Granulosus (Phillips) and P. Heberti (Vernueil, Bull. Soc. Geolog. de 



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