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THE GEOLOGIST. 
1. " On a Collection of Fossil Plants from tlie Nagpur Territory, Central 
India." By Sir. C. Banbury, Bart., F.R.S., F.G.S., &c. 
The specimens examined by the author were collected by the Rev. Messrs. 
S. Hislop and R. Hunter, and presented to the Geological Society in 1854, and 
since. The vegetable remains described in this paper are . — t. Glossopteris 
Browniana, var. Australasica, Ad. Brong. Yery few specimens from Bharat- 
wa(/a, and at the foot of the Mahadewa Hills. G. Browniana, var. Indica, Ad. 
Brong. By much the most abundant plant in the collection, with many sub- 
varieties ; specimens very fine, many of them in fructification. Silewa^/a. 2. 
G. musafolia, sp. nov. Silewa^/a and Kampti. 3. G. leptoneura, sp. n. Kampti. 
4. G. stricfa, sp. n. Silewa(^a and Kampti. 5. Pecopteris, sp. somewhat re- 
sembling P. Plukenetii. Kampti. 6. Cladophlehis (?), Kampti. 7, Taniopteris, 
danmides, M'Clelland (?), _ Kampti. 8. FilicUes : possiblv a Glossopteris. 
SihwidL 9. Filicites : ])ossihlj Glossopteris. Kampti. N agger athia {^.). 
Bhratawa(/a. 11. Phyllotheca Indica, sp. n. Bharatwar/a, Bokara, Kampti, 
Silewa^/a, and Barkoi. 12. Vertehraria (?). Different from the true Verte- 
braria, and probably roots. ^ Tonkaheiri, Kampti, Barkoi, and Mahadewa Hills. 
13. Knorria (?). Mangali. 14. Stigmaria (?) : perhaps the rhizome of a fern. 
Mangali. 15. Part of a stem, somewhat Sigillarian in appearance. Silewac?a. 
16. Part of a large stem with a scar. Silewar/a. 17. Fuccites (?). Kampti. 
The fruits and seeds are reserved for further examination. On a general survey 
of aU these plant-remains, the author for the present considers the fades of the 
fossil flora under notice to be Mesozoic rather than Palaeozoic, but he regards 
the question as an open one, and requiring much further light for its perfect 
elucidation. 
2. " On the Age of the Possiliferous thin-bedded Sandstones and Coal-beds 
of the Province of Nagpur, Central India." By the Rev. Stephen Hislop. 
Communicated by the President. 
The author first pointed out the places near the city of Nagpur where the 
plant-bearing sandstone has been best studied (Silewa</a, Kampti, Bokhara, 
Tondakheiri, &c.) ; also other places as far distant as twenty miles west, thirty- 
five miles north-east, and eighty-five miles south (Chanda. He next noticed 
the carbonaceous shales underlying thick sandstones, at the foot of the Maha- 
dewa Hills, and the coal-seams of Barkoi, near Umret, eighty miles and more 
north-west of Nagpur ; and pointed out their relationship to the plant-bearing 
sandstone near Nagpur, as shown by the Glossopteris, and other fossils found 
in each locality. Reference was then made to the author having previously 
correlated the above-mentioned sandstones, shales, and coal, with the coal- 
bearing-beds of Western Bengal, where the same group of fossil plants are 
found. 
At Mangali, between fifty and sixty miles south of Nagpur, dark red sand- 
stones are found, rich with Estheria, and containing remains of plants, Ganoid 
Fishes, and Reptiles {Br achy ops laticeps, Owen). These beds Mr. Hislop 
thinks to be of the same age as those of Nagpur and Chanda. Still further 
south (one hundred and seventy miles from Nagpur), at Kota, there are (under 
thick sandstones) limestones and shales, containing fishes of the genera, 
^chm,odus and Lepidctus, Teleosaurian remains, Coprolites, fossil Insects, 
Cyprid(E, and Estheria:, with obscure plant-remains. These beds are also re- 
garded by the author as equivalent in age to the play^t -bearing sandstones of 
Nagpur ; whilst the sandstones above them may be equal to the sandstone of 
the Mahadewas ; and the red clay beneath them may be the same as that of 
Maledi, thirty miles off (to the north-east), where Ceratodus teeth and Copro- 
lites have been found in abundance. 
Whether any beds equivalent to the Rajmahal (upper Damuda) series of 
Western Bengal occur in the Nagpur district^ the author is not quite certain 
