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[No. 3, 



9. From Mr. C. Swaris, Taxidermist to the Society's Museum a 

 Bhotanese sword. 



10. From Lieutenant- Colonel Thuillier on the part of Mr. Mulheran 

 of the Hyderabad Topographical Survey, a set of 18 Stereoscopic 

 Views of the Caves of Ellora and Ajunta. 



11. From A. Carlyle, Esq., copies of his work entitled " the Tale of 

 the Battle of Padnianabham," with a Telugu translation of the same. 



12. From the Government of India, through XL E. Carnac, Esq., 

 a fine specimen of a fossil Amphibian from the Pachmari Hills. 



Mr. Blanford called the attention of the meeting to this very inter- 

 esting specimen, which had been expected for some time past, but had 

 only arrived a few days ago. " It was discovered in the early part of 

 last year by Major Cowan, exposed on the face of a block of sandstone 

 lying on the right bank of a small mountain stream about a mile to 

 the westward of Bijori, in the Chindwarra district. The block lav at 

 a" spot where the stream is crossed by the cattle road passing from the 

 hill plateau of Pachmari via the Ehori pass and Bijori to Mohtoor, 

 and the fossil appears to have been well-known to the natives as the 

 "Machli Xatta," (fish bones.) The exact spot has been marked by 

 Lieut. Sim (who subsequently visited the place) on Mr. Medlicott's 

 geological map of Central India, and is on a tract coloured by Mr. 

 Medlicott as the Mahadeva sandstone, a formation of great thickness 

 forming the mass of the Pachmari Hills and resting unconformably 

 upon the coal and plant-bearing groups, part of which are contempo- 

 raneous with the lower part of the coal measures of the Eanigunge 

 field. The age of the Mahadeva sandstones is unknown, no fossil 

 remains having hitherto been found in them, but they are overlaid by 

 trap-rocks with intercalated fresh water deposits, the age of which has 

 been lately determined by Mr. W. T. Blanford as pre-nummulitic, 

 while from data afforded by the late Mr. Hislop and others there 

 seems but little doubt that these fresh water deposits are not older 

 than the newest deposits of the Cretaceous period. 



Major Cowan's report on the discovery of this fossil was forwarded 

 to the Society by the Government of India, in May 1863, and its 

 importance having been pointed out, the Chief Commissioner of the 

 Central Provinces was requested to have the specimen procured and 

 forwarded to Calcutta. The fossil was shortly afterwards removed 

 by Lieutenant Sim ; E, E. ? carefully packed to prevent injury, and 



