SCIENTIFIC RESULTS 
OF 
THE SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
KARAKORAM STONES, 
OR 
S YRIN GOSPHiERIDiE. 
By P. MARTIN DUNCAN, M.B. Loud., P.R.S. 
'The 
history of the discovery of the Syringosphjeridm and the literature of the 
SUBJECT. 
aa d Which^- 61 ° f spkeroida l and of spherical stones, ornamented naturally on tlie surface, 
attra «t the ST n ° indications of ever having been attached to other bodies, could not but 
Sor ne i nst Cntl0n of those geologists who years since traveHed in Kashmir. Measuring 
bIia ? stone h°n S • ° ° r three inclies in diameter and in others not half an inch, and resent 
CUr i°Us as t 51118 ln slia De, these fossils, from the Karakoram range, became known to the 
f rom ara ^ oram stone s.” But that they were not simple mineral productions was 
anat °my Was - le ,' sl to the educated collector; nevertheless, the nature of their external 
V erch6 re n . gularl y Mistaken by those paleontologists into whose hands they first 
f "... * — wuusc nanus uicy nr si came. 
\ &eng a i i,,’ l8f h m ’ ltin s on tlie geology of Kashmir in the Journal of the Asiatic Society 
Wales of fi 7 ’ had the benefit of the paleontological skill of M. de Verneuil, and two 
Tli,, (l^ C| .- eS , aceom T >ailie d the descriptions of these remarkable forms. 1 
Saia H roImVT giTen ° f ° ne species wasthat the bodies are “perfectly globular, covered 
! th Hiinute TKl1 . A e< M artS '' shai T d y defined. The whole shell, between the warts, is pierced 
'W^cethe ST)0 ,-' S ' traces of P lates 5 ho mouth nor stalk scar visible.” The locality 
lai> akora m chai ^ ™ derived was thc rock Y P la ms at the foot of the Masha Brum, 
. Mother • l ie g encric Position was stated to he that of Splicer onites. 
T? SiS 1S as follow 1GS h r d i the name S P Ju/lronitcs ryaltii, Yerch., given to it; and the diag- 
^ e . Wh °le shell . S Globular, large warts well set apart and not very sharply defined. 
d>eci meilj ako s i covered with pores. No mouth. A stalk stem very conspicuous.” A third 
j. a es °r traces of* 580 / ^ & ^^ l(eron ^ es > is thus noticed : — “ Depressed, no warts or spines : no 
'° s PociiHeH S w ^ abes ’ no skdk scar - The whole surface pierced by minute pores.” These 
, ere derived from the same locality as the first. 
Journal A^i 
SlatlC SoClety of Ben S aI > 186 D Pt. 2, No. 3, Appendix p. 208, Plate VIII, Figs. 5 and 6, and Plate IX, Fig. 1. 
