PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



For June, 1856. 



At a monthly general meeting of the Society held on the 4th 

 instant, at the usual hour, 



A. G-rote, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The proceedings of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 

 Presentations were received, 



Erom Lieut. A. Trotter, a collection of fossils from Kohat. 



On the proposition of Captain Thuillier, seconded by Mr. "Wood- 

 row, the best thanks of the Society were voted to Lieut. Trotter for 

 the valuable collection of fossils sent by him. 



2. — Some drawings of fossil bones from the same district by 

 Lieut. Garnett, Engineers. 



Professor Oldham read the following extract from a letter of 

 Lieut. Garnett, Engineers, regarding the fossils, sent by Mr. Trotter. 



" They have been selected as the most portable, and at the same 

 time characteristic specimens of the fossil fauna of the valley of the 

 Indus. The extent of the bone bed in this part of the Indus, as 

 far as it is at present known, is limited to about eighteen miles of 

 the river's course from the village of Choorlukkee to the mouth of 

 Kohat Towy. Fragments are sometimes found five to seven miles 

 from the banks of the river. The great depth of the ravines near 

 Kooshalghur, and indeed all the way along both banks of the river, 

 facilitates the search for the bones very mucli ; — some of the Khudds 

 are 200 feet and upwards in depth. The tertiary beds here consist 

 of a softish sandstone, generally of a light grey or green tint, with 

 partings of red and grey marks. The strata have been slightly 

 tilted since deposition, which has caused the sandstone to form pa- 

 rallel ridges of from ten to sixty feet high all over the valley. 



