400 MR. A. K. COOMARASWAMY ON THE [ Aug. 1902, 
noted. Other cipolins from Cornegal (Kurunegala) were examined, 
and consisted largely of yellow calcite. They contained elliptical 
masses, reaching a foot in length, made up of a mixture of various 
minerals. One such was formed of calcite, oligoclase, green 
pyroxene, pyrite, quartz, and sphene; another of green amphibole, 
calcite, scapolite, sphene, oligoclase, pyrite, and zoisite. These 
nodules thus present a composition not altogether unlike that of the 
pyroxenic gneisses of the same districts. 
In 1898 Dr. Max Diersche* examined a specimen of limestone 
from ‘Queen’s Palace’ (Anuradhapura?) which Prof. Zirkel had 
collected; he found in it calcite, dolomite, olivine, phlogopite, 
and rutile. 
In 1900 Dr. E. Ch. Schiffer * described in some detail a granular 
limestone from Wattegama, from the railway-cutting near the level- 
crossing, giving analyses of dolomite, apatite, phlogopite, hydro- 
phlogopite, green serpentine (probably derived from forsterite), and 
white serpentine, recording also spinel, pyrite, and magnetite. 
In the same year the present writer’ noted the occurrence of 
limestones at Hakgala, Kandy, etc., referring especially to large 
pyroxenic masses with much blue apatite, occurring in the Hakgala 
limestone.* 
Mr. John Parkinson * has described a section exposed in a railway- 
cutting near Matale, showing crystalline limestone in which occurs 
a band of rock resembling pyroxene-granulite which he (I think, 
rightly) supposes to be an intrusion in the limestone (see p. 408). 
He suggests also that limestone-material has been absorbed by the 
igneous rock. 
Prof. E. Weinschenk ° refers to the occurrence of these coarse- 
grained dolomites and cipolins, and regards the forsterite, chon- 
drodite, phlogopite, and spinel which they contain as contact- 
minerals. He associates these rocks with the peculiar andalusite-, 
sillimanite-, and corundum-bearing rocks described by Prof. Lacroix, 
and considers that they represent beds of unknown age into which the 
rocks forming the Granulitic or Charnockite Series were intruded, 
producing widespread contact-metamorphism. 
Dr. Fr. Griinling,’ who collected the specimens of limestone 
described by Schiffer, in a general account of the results of his 
expedition to Ceylon, suggests that the corundum and spinel found 
1 «Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Gesteine u. Graphitvorkommnisse Ceylons’ 
Jahrb. d. k.-k. Geol. Reichsanst. vol. xlviii (1898) p. 271. 
2 * Chemische Untersuchungen eines kornigen Dolomits aus dem Gneiss von 
Wattegama in Ceylon’ Inaug.-Diss. Munich, 1900. 
8 *Ceylon Rocks & Graphite’ Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. lvi (1900) p. 600. 
4 This is the locality ‘near Newara Eliya’ referred to by Prof. A. H. Church in 
‘Nature’ vol. lxiii (1901) p. 464. } 
5 ‘Notes on the Geology of South-Central Ceylon’ Quart. Journ. Geol. Soe. 
vol. lvii (1901) pp. 204-206. 
6 «Zur Kenntniss der Graphitlagerstatten: III. Die Graphitlagerstatten der 
Insel Ceylon’ Abh. k.-bayerisch. Akad. Wissensch.vol. xxi (1901) pp. 286-90. 
See also review in Geol. Mag. 1901, pp. 175-76. 
7 ‘Ueber die Mineralvorkommen von Ceylon’ Zeitschr. fiir Krystallogr, 
vol, xxxili (1900) pp. 233, 235. 
