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are accompanied abundantly with a species of Cerithium (or Turritella?) The 

 locality is about four miles south of Subathoo. I had previously found some indis- 

 tinct remains of either a Chelonian or Crocodilean character close to my own house. 

 They were firmly imbedded in an intensely hard pudding stone. But my last 

 discovery has placed the matter beyond all doubt. 



The limestone beds (near Subathoo) are of little thickness, alternating with, and 

 subordinate to, immense beds of a fissured and friable clay slate, which often con- 

 tains calcareous matter, derived doubtless from the disintegration of shells origin- 

 ally imbedded in it, and of which the indistinct remains are often apparent ; the 

 slate often passes gradually into the limestone, and at such points only are casts 

 of Fossils procurable. The central portion of the limestone beds is intensely 

 hard, and although abounding in fossil remains, nothing can be individually de- 

 tached. 



In many places the limestone beds seem to be wholly composed of Ostrese, but 

 so firmly cemented together, that as yet I have been unable to obtain an entire 

 specimen. In other beds casts of an Astarte like bivalve are most abundant, 

 sparingly accompanied with Turritella and a few other spinal shells ; specimens 

 capable of identification are rare, although individuals are sufficiently abundant ; 

 the number of genera and species as far as I have yet noticed are few. Ostrea 

 seems to be the only shell retaining a portion of its calcareous matter, all the 

 others are casts. The bones are completely petrified, not a particle of animal 

 matter remaining, and it is impossible to dislodge them entire. Part of a lower 

 jaw showing six alveoli with broken off teeth, and a scapula, are among the most 

 perfect I have been able as yet to disengage from the rock. I mean shortly to 

 revisit the place and to renew my efforts to obtain good specimens. 



W. VlCARY. 



Subathoo, 20th Nov. 1847. 



The Council communicated a letter from the most Reverend Dr. 

 Carew, Archbishop of Edessa, offering, in reply to an application from 

 the Society, his suggestions and cordial co-operation in forwarding to 

 His Holiness the Pope, the works once belonging to the Roman Catho- 

 lic Mission in Thibet, and which Mr. Hodgson has procured from the 

 Grand Lama for presentation to Pope Pius IX. The thanks of the 

 Society were unanimously voted to His Grace the Archbishop, whose 

 suggestions as to the mode of transmitting the books, were directed to 

 be adopted ; and a complete set of the Society's Oriental publications, 

 Researches and Journal, to be forwarded at the same time for presenta- 

 tion to the Library of the Vatican. 



Also extracts from a letter received by Dr. O'Shaughnessy from Pro- 

 fessor Wilson, announcing the progress actually made in the home 



