A MONOGHAPH 



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EOSSIL CORALS AND ALOYOMRIA 



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SIND. 



I. Introductory Bemarks on previous Works relating to the Fossil Corals of Sind. 



In 1853 MM. d'Archiac and Jules Haime published their great work entitled 

 ' Description des Animaux Fossiles du groupe Nummulitique de I'lnde.' It contained, 

 amongst other subjects, a very elaborate description of many species of fossil Corals 

 which were derived from unknown localities in Sind. These descriptions were con- 

 tributed by the late Jules Haime, a zoophytologist of great power and a most 

 conscientious observer. He noticed seventeen species of Corals, most of which were 

 well-known forms in the Nummulite-bearing rocks of Europe ; some, however, were 

 new to science. But the situation of their original localities was masked by the state- 

 ment that these fossils had been found in the Hala mountains — that is to say, in a 

 geographical position which never had any existence. The exquisite delineations of 

 the species given by MM. dArchiac and Haime are of course of great value, but 

 their monograph is of slight geological importance ; they ignored all other Tertiary 

 formations in Sind except the Nummulitic. 



Although the exact localities whence the fossil corals submitted to MM. d'Archiac 

 and Jules Haime came are unknown, it may be taken for granted that the majority 

 came from Sind and one from Cutch. 



The fossils had been collected by Captain Vicary and Mr. Blagrove and others, 

 some years previously. 



In 1863 the author of this Monograph examined the collections in the museum of 

 the Geological Society which had been submitted to the two French palaeontologists 



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