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products of the mountain region. Up to tiiis time the Monntain 
races hare been in the hahit of consuming the brick Teas of China. 
It is certainly a remarkable &ct that an integral part of the 
Chinese Empire is receiving its supplies of Tea from India, and 
Dr. Jameson is sanguiiie that if aided bj good roads the trade with 
the Bhotiahs will soon become an important one, and that the 
Indian Teas will be sold at rates so cheap as to drive the Chinese 
article out of the market in these regions. 
Extracts of a letter firom Professor Oldham to Mr. Brooke Cun- 
lifie, were also read acknowledging the« receipt of certain fossil re- 
J; mains from the cretaceous beds at Utatur and Verdachellam for the 
J^* ** p Museum of Economic Geology. Putting siside the Cephelopoda, 
^i-'" ^Mr. Oldham observes, the specimens from the two localities indi- 
cate only a little difference in the depth of water where the depo- 
> 5^/ 1 1^ sits ^ere formed: but the presence of these chambered shells 
^ ^ points to a series of beds somewhat higher in Geological sequence. 
The great prevalence of amtmtmUes of the section of UgaH as 
compared with the Verdachellam group is of this nature. 
Mr. Oldham also sent copies of the prospectus of the new organi- 
zation of the Geological Museum, one of which Mr. Cunliffe pre- 
sented to the Sodety. 
It is proposed to print this on the fly leaf of the Journal, and it 
is hoped that the Members of the Society wiU exert themselves to 
procure eontribntions to the collection. It is only by grouping 
together the geological facts derived from a comparison of fossil 
remains £rom all parts of India that a correct idea can be formed 
of the geological structure and conditions of this vast country. And 
the eminent qualifications of the officers attached to the geological 
survey afford the best guarantee that full justice will be done to such 
contributions. 
Mr. Oldham adds that he had recently obtt^ined a small collec- 
tion of fossils from the limestone to the west of Mhow and Indore 
near the Nerbudda Valley which appear to be nearly of the same 
geological age as those from Utatur, with considerable variety how- 
