PROCEEDINGS 



OP THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OE BENGAL, 



Fob July, 1864. 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 

 was held on the 6th Instant. 



Captain W. 1ST. Lees, Vice-President, in the chair. 



The Proceedings of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



Mr. Oldham said— 



" At the last meeting of the Society (June 1st) the attention of the 

 members was directed to a very interesting specimen of a fossil repti- 

 lian, which had been received by the Society from Nagpore : and the 

 Secretary (Mr. Blanford) made some valuable remarks bearing on the 

 natural history, and geological age of this fossil. Mr. Blanford stated 

 that the locality where it had been found was within the limits of the 

 area coloured on the Geological Survey map of the Nerbudda valley 

 prepared by Mr. J. G. Medlicott, as belonging to the " Mahadeva" 

 group ; and then entered into some speculations as to the possible 

 age of this group, pointing out how essentially the fact of the occur- 

 rence of this reptile in the rocks of that group would affect the 

 question of their geological age. As I believe that this fossil has 

 nothing whatever to say to that group, I would desire to record the 

 facts. 



" It was stated to have been found about a mile west of Bijori 

 village, at a spot where the stream is crossed by the cattle road from 

 the Puchmuri plateau by Eori, &c. Now a mile west of Bijori, and 

 where the hill path crosses the stream, is well within the limits of the 

 Damuda works, on Mr. Medlicott's map, and as I have been at the 

 spot, I can also say that it is so, in reality. Further the spot indi- 

 cated on the map by Lieut. Sim, neither coincides with this descrip- 

 tion of the spot where the fossil was found, nor is it, at the base of 



