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products of the mountain region. Up to this time the Mountain 

 races have been in the habit of consuming the brick Teas of China. 



It is certainly a remarkable fact that an integral part of the 

 Chinese Empire is receiving its supplies of Tea from India, and 

 Dr. Jameson is sanguine that if aided by 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 from Professor Oldham to Mr. Brooke Cun- 

 liffe, were also read acknowledging the receipt of certain fossil re- 

 mains from the cretaceous beds at Utatur and Verdachellam for the 

 Museum of Economic Geology. Putting aside the Cephelopoda, 

 Mr. Oldham observes, the specimens from the two localities indi- 

 cate only a little difference in the depth of water where the depo- 

 sits were formed; but the presence of these chambered shells 

 points to a series of beds somewhat higher in Geological sequence. 

 The great prevalence of ammonites of the section of Ligati 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 Society. 



It is proposed to print this on the fly leaf of the Journal, and it 

 is hoped that the Members of the Society will exert themselves to 

 procure contributions to the collection. It is only by grouping 

 together the geological facts derived from a comparison of fossil 

 remains from 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 obtained 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- 

 ever, as was to be expected from the difference of latitude. 



