1890.] Geology and Paleontology. 667 
Ina recent issue of the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 
of London, Mr. R. Lydekker treats of the presence of the Striped 
Hyena in the Pliocene beds of the Val d'Arno, describing the re- 
mains in answer to the assertion that they belonged to Æ. crocuta. It 
is curious that these two species do not now exist in the same localities, 
though in ancient times they seem to have done so ; also that they have 
to a considerable extent interchanged their localities, 
Recent.—Capt. A. W. Stiffe recently read a paper before the Geo- 
logical Society of London concerning the glaciation of the Sind and 
Jhelam valleys in the Himalayan mountains of Kashmir. He stated 
his belief in the gigantic character of the ancient glaciation and gave 
a general description of the features of the Sind valley and of the ex- 
isting glaciers near Sonawarg. At this point there are snow fields at a 
lower level than the foot of the glacier, which is rather unusual. Very 
perfect typical older terminal moraines exist at Sonawarg, some of 
them four miles below the present termination of the glaciers, and at 
an elevation of 10,000 feet. These once blocked up the Sind River, 
and the sections cut by the rivers through these moraines are remark- 
able. The glaciated appearance of the gorge below Sonawarg is very 
striking, and the entire Sind valley presents a continual succession of 
moraines. The hillsides of the valley exhibit a comparatively rounded 
outline to a height of 2000 feet or more, while above this they are 
rugged. > 
The existing lakes of the Kashmir district were referred by the 
writer to glacial action—they were the remains of a former much more 
extensive alluvial lake which had been largely silted up; he then 
treated of the supposed glacial deposits of the Jhelam valley, and 
stated that the whole valley from Baramilla to Mozufferabad contained 
extensive glacial or moraine deposits. In conclusion attention was 
drawn to the great deposits of travelled granite blocks at Rampoor, 
blocks which from their size, and from their difference from the neigh- 
boring rocks, must certainly have been carried thither by the action of 
glaciers. 
