1864.] 



Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 



461 



The Hon'ble Elphinstone Jackson, proposed by W. L. Heeley, 

 Esq., seconded by H. E. Blanford, Esq. 



Baboo Tartick Chunder Sircar, proposed by Baboo Jadava Krishna 

 Singh, seconded by Captain W. N. Lees. 



Captain E. B. Sladen, Madras Staff Corps, proposed by H. E. 

 Blanford, Esq., seconded by W. L. Heeley, Esq. 



B. Jardine, Esq., C. S., proposed by W. L. Heeley, Esq., seconded 

 by Baboo Bajendralal Mitra. 



The Secretary read the following letter from Lieutenant C. A. Sim, 

 B. E., to H. Bivett Carnac, Esq., Assistant Secretary to the Chief 

 Commissioner of the Central Provinces, relating to the fossil amphibian 

 lately presented to the Society's Museum, a copy of which letter had 

 been forwarded by the latter to the Society. 



From Lieut. C. A. Sim, Boyal Engineers, to Harry Bivett Carisac, 

 Esq., Assistant Secretary to the Chief Commissioner, Central 

 Provinces. 



Gondwarra, dated 23rd May, 1864. 

 Sir,— In reference to your demi-official communication of the 30th 

 March last, 1 have the honour to state, for the information of the Chief 

 Commissioner, that, in company with Dr. Orr, I again visited, on the 

 21st instant, the spot where the Saurian was found in last July. 



I then accurately marked the position in the geological map which 

 you forwarded to me : so I need not again revert to the subject of 

 site. The Nandiya stream has been now examined for some distance 

 on both directions of the Saurian site, but I regret to say that no 

 new fossil has been discovered. The rocks in the bed of the stream 

 are mostly of a very hard sandstone ; all appear to have been washed 

 down, and to be continually changing their position. The strike 

 or dip of some of these layers of sandstone was observed to be as 

 much as 30° to the north, whilst the dip of the rocks in the base of 

 the neighbouring hills is but 3° or 4° to the same point of the 

 compass. Occasionally, nodules of basalt and layers of shale are met 

 with in the bed of the stream, and this is easily accounted for 

 when the rising ground in the immediate vicinity is examined, for the 

 hills are nearly all capped with Trap, having a substratum of sandstone 

 with heads dipping 3° or 4° to the north. 



The presence, then in the bed of the river of both trap and sand 

 stone boulders of a similar formation to that of the neighbouring 



