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The letter concludes finally, like several others, with a brief sketch of the work in the field 
upon which his colleagues were engaged, and of his own paleontological publications con- 
nected with the Survey. 
During the year 1870 he published the following papers : “ Note on the Kjokkenmoddings 
“ of the Andaman Islands ” (41), which was founded on an examination of an old kitchen 
midden, the results obtained pointing to the existence of a race with some different habits 
from those of the existing Andamanese ; “ Note on a few species of Andamanese land 
shells ” (42) ; “A contribution to Malay Ornithology” (43), of which a critical review by 
the Marquis of Tweeddale appeared in the Ibis for 1871, p. 158 ; “ Note on three species of 
“ Batrachia from Moulmein ” (44) ; and “ Malayan Amphibia and Beptilia ” (45). 
In spite of these varied occupations, which, it will be observed, did not follow the order 
predicted in bis letter to Dr. v. Haidinger, his palaeontological work always occupied the 
principal part of his time, and, referring to it, Dr. Oldham in his annual report says, “ Dr. 
“ Ferdinand Stoliczka, Palaeontologist to the Survey, lias throughout maintained the same 
“ thorough and indefatigable devotion to the work he has undertaken as has hitherto 
“ distinguished his labours.” 
In 1871 the following papers and notes were published : “ Observations on Indian and 
Malayan Telphusidce ” (47); On the Anatomy of Cremnoconchus (48) ; “Notes on terres- 
trial Mollusca from the neighbourhood of Moulmein, Tcnasserim Provinces, with description 
“ of new species” (49) ; “Notes on some Indian and Burmese Ophidians” (50); “Note on 
“ Testudo JPhayrei ” (51) ; Tertiary Crabs from Siud and Each (Cutch) (53). 
The following letter to Bitter v. Hauer gives an account of bis palaeontological work :* 
“ Fou will see the next account of our progress in Oldham’s Annual Beport, which will 
“ be published at the end of this month. Geological surveying continues in all parts of 
“ India, my Himalayan work alone remains still interrupted, and it is not probable that I 
“ shall find time this year to go to Tibet ; willingly I made a revision of Spiti, for that 
“ is a key to wider work. Perhaps, when it becomes possible, I will go for three months 
“ to Niti, in Kumaon, where Strachey lias done so much work. I hear the Jurassic Beds 
“ are importantly developed there, and the Silurian Beds contain more fossils than in Spiti. 
“ The visit would therefore be specially interesting. 
“ My Peiecypoda are now finally ready. The second portion of the volume I will send 
“ next, and the third part will soon be printed. The whole volume will contain upwards of 
600 pages and 50 plates. I have described 243 species from the South Indian Cretaceous 
formation, and made, as far as possible, a complete revision of all the living and fossil genera 
of Peleeypodes. The geological result is interesting. There are about 12 per cent, identical 
with European species, possibly more, but tbe identifications are less certain. It is note- 
“ worthy how the geological oyster layers correspond with the European. For example, 
Exogyra ostracina, Gryphcea vesicularis, and Ostrea ungulata are in Europe only found 
“ hi the chalk, with us also exclusively in the Arrialoor group, while Exogyra haliotoidea , 
“ Gryphcea suborbicularis ( columba ), G. vesiculosa, Ostrea carinata lie deeper in Europe, 
“ and similarly in India only occur in the Ootatoor group. Of other characteristic species I 
* “ Geologische Arbeiten in Indien” (from a letter to Herr Director v. Hauer, dated Calcutta, 8th March 1871). 
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