206 Dr. Verchere on the Geology of Kashmir, [No. 3, 



India by A. Fleming and W. Purdon, Quart. Journal, vol. XVIII. p. 25 ; 

 2 plates. 2nd, Description of some fossils from India discovered by J. 

 Fleming, by Dr. L. de Koninck, Quart. Journ. vol. XIX. with 8 plates 

 on which are figured among others some very curious goniatites. 3rd, 

 Geological notes on part of the N. W. Himalayas, by Gapt. Godwin- 

 Austen, with notes of fossils by T. Davidson, R. Etheridge and P. 

 Woodward. It is only an abstract of the memoir, without plates. 

 Capt. Godwin-Austen followed the Carboniferous limestone along 

 the foot of the mountains at the north of the valley of Kashmir 

 as far as Ishmalabad.* The carboniferous series is, according to 

 Capt. G. Austen, as follows, from the highest to the lowest. 1st 

 Layers with goniatites more or less analogous to the ceratites of the 

 Musckelhalk. These layers are the highest of the carboniferous 

 formation. 2nd. Below is found a compact limestone poor in fossils ; 

 3rd, argillaceous series ; 4th, limestone rich in fossils, Froductus, cfcc. 

 5th quartzite. 



As early as 1850, Sir Roderick Murchison had shown me some of 

 the fossils sent by Mr. Fleming, and I had identified the P. Cora, 

 costatus, Flemingi, the Atliyris Boysii, Orthis crensistria, &c. 

 Quart. Journ. vol. 7, p. 39. At the same epoch Dr. Falconer and 

 Major Vicary had announced the existence of palaeozoic fossils in 

 the mountains which separate British India from Kabul, as remarked 

 by Sir R. Murchison, Quart. Journ. vol. VII. p. 38. In 1852, Mr. 

 A. Fleming published his observations on the Salt Range in several 

 letters addressed to Sir R. Murchison, Quart Journ. vol. IX. p. 189. 



All the fossils collected by Mr. Fleming, Mr. Purdon, Captain 

 G. Austen and Dr. Verchere belong to the carboniferous formation. 

 Captain Strachey alone has proved the existence of more ancient rocks 

 (in a pabeontological point of view.)f He sent to London a series 

 of fossils collected in the mountains, from 17 to 18000 feet above 

 the sea, which separate Thibet from the British provinces of Kurnaon 

 and Garhwal. I have identified among these fossils some Asaphus, 



* Capt. Gordon- Austen and myself visited the localities referred to in the 

 geological notes, during a tour we made together in the autumn of 1863. We 

 thought at one time of writing a memoir in collaboration, but having been sent 

 to the extremes of India, we arranged our notes separately. A. M. V. 



f In the present paper are figured a few Cystoids which are in all probabi- 

 lity Silurian, see PI. VIII. fig. 61 and 62. 



