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funa or Umtamvuna Eiver, as well as in the neighbourhood of the 
Umzamba or Umzambani Eiver, and extending probably to the 
Umtata Eiver. The fossils collected by Captain Garden were 
described and figured by W. H. Baily," who regarded them as 
showing affinities to the Southern Indian Cretaceous fossils, which 
had been monographed by Edward Forbes t in 1846, as well as to 
the Blackdown fauna of England and the Craie Chloritee of France. 
Subsequently the late C. L. Griesbach I collected similar and 
additional specimens from the same localities, his researches form- 
ing a valuable contribution to this subject. He termed the fos- 
siliferous beds the " Izinhluzabalungu Deposits," dividing them into 
five zones, with Ammonites gardeni at the top. He regarded the 
beds as extending as far as St. Lucia Bay in Zululand, and he 
further considered that the fossils belonged to the Chalk, Upper 
Greensand, and Lower Greensand horizons, and about twenty of the 
molluscan species were referred to Southern Indian forms. 
Griesbach's types are in the Natural History Museum of 
Hamburg, and Dr. Gottsche,§ the present Director of that Insti- 
tution, published a brief statement about them in 1887, his opinion 
being that the species range from the Utatur to the Ariyalur 
groups. 
Some years since Dr. Franz Kossmat |j had the opportunity of 
examining Daily's original specimens from Pondoland in the Museum 
of the Geological Society, as well as an important collection from 
the same country in the British Museum. H He proved the 
inaccuracy of Griesbach's zones by finding examples of Schlocnbachia 
stangeri and Fuzosia gardeni associated together in the same matrix, 
and therefore rightly concluded that they must be of similar horizon. 
* Baily, W. H. — Description of some Cretaceous Fossils from South Africa, &c. , 
Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, 1855, vol. xi., pis. xi.-xiii., pp. 454-465. 
t Forbes, E. — Report on the Fossil Invertebrata from Southern India, (fee, Trans. 
Geol. Soc. London, 1846. ser. 2, vol. 7, pis. 7-19, pp. 97-174. 
I Griesbach, C. L. — On the Geology of Natal, in South Africa, Quart. Journ. 
Geol. Soc, 1871, vol. 27, pis. ii., iii., pp. 53-72. 
§ Gottsche, Dr. — Zeitsch. deutsch. geol. Ges., 1887, vol. 39, p. 622. 
II Kossmat, F. — Die Bedeutung der Siidindischen Kreide-Formation fur die 
Beurtheilung der Geographischen Verhaltnisse wahrend der spateren Kreidezeit, 
Jahrb. k. k. Geol. Reichs. [Wien], 1894, vol. 44, part 3, p. 463. An English 
translation of this memoir is to be found in the Records Geol. Surv. India, 1895, 
vol. 28, pp. 39-55. 
IF This collection was transferred to the British Museum from the Imperial 
Institute by the late Director, Sir Frederick Abel, F.R.S., on behalf of the 
Government of Natal, during 1894, having been found on the site of the " Colonial 
and Indian Exhibition, 1886," and is doubtless that referred to in the "Natal 
Official Handbook" of that Exhibition on p. 44, as follows : " Fossils from Chalk 
Formation, Umtamvuna River. Wm. Bazley." 
