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through a fossil deposit. From thence to Baccaneer south six 

 miles, and so into Mundlaiser." 



From these details it will be evident that to Captain Keatinge 

 alone is due the merit of having first distinguished these fossils as 

 cretaceous, and to him also belongs the merit of having most zea- 

 lously and under cousiderable difficulties, collected a very tolerable 

 series of them. 



I have taken this opportunity of recording the facts above given, 

 more especially because in the last number of the Journal of the 

 Bombay Branch of the Eoyal Asiatic Society, there is a notice re- 

 garding some fossils from the same locality, in which the discovery 

 of these most interesting fossils, and their identification as creta- 

 ceous, is not fully assigued to Captain Keatinge. And I desire to 

 reclaim for that most active and enlightened officer, the fullest 

 award of credit which his exertions deserve. I do this the more 

 anxiously also, because unexpected circumstances had prevented our 

 doing so at the earliest opportunity, as intended, so long since as 

 May last, the last of the fossils having only reached me a few days 

 previously. 



I shall not here discuss the conclusions arrived at by Dr. Carter 

 in the notice referred to,* that these beds are truly neocomien, 

 because I think we have not got any sufficient data to reason upon, 

 I feel confident that the hasty reference of any group of rocks, to 

 some acknowledged European subdivision based upon the occurrence 

 of 3 or 4 ill-preserved and ill-identified fossils is both unphilosophical 

 and injurious. The evidence here is abundantly good to say that 

 these rocks represent the cretaceous era, but altogether insufficient 

 to enable one to refer them to any subdivision of that great series. 



Reserving, as before, the detailed specific description of these 

 fossils, a generic summary is here given of the number, &c. 



Summary of Fossils collected at Baug by Captain Keatinge. 



Corallines 4 or 5 species Species. 



Echinodermata. Cidaris, 1 



Echinus, (species) 1 



Brissus, 2 or 3 



* Journal Bombay Asiatic Society, No. XX. July 1857, page 621. 



