. Records of the Geological Survey of India. [vol. xi. 
Before commencing examination, I was myself inclined to believe in tbe prob¬ 
ability of a glacial origin; but as my observations have accumulated, I have been 
constrained to adopt tbe view, that tbe balance of evidence available at present 
is against such an explanation. At tbe same time, I have indicated that there 
still remain several points for determination, which are of almost crucial import¬ 
ance. Future observers will, probably, give a large portion of their attention 
to some of these questions, and, with the aid of the maps, soundings, &e., here 
given, will be able to add considerably to the above data, thus affording fuller 
material, by -which it is to be hoped a sound and stable conclusion may be finally 
arrived at. 
I have only to add that it appears unadvisable at present to refer particu¬ 
larly here to tbe debated question, as to tbe evidence of the former existence of 
glaciers at low elevations in Kangra and elsewhere. 
For the present, the two series of observations had best, perhaps, be kept 
quite separate, but their ultimate connection and relationship is, of course, none 
the less obvious. 
Note on a teip oyer the Milam Pass, Kumaon, by Theodore W. H. Hughes^ 
A.R.S.M. F.Gr.S., Geological Survey of India, with a description op the 
FOSSILS BY De. Wa-AGET^, formerly Palceontologist to the Survey. 
Early in August 1873, an opportunity being afforded to spend a few weeks 
in Tibet and the higher regions of the Himalayas, my colleague, Mr. Hacket, 
and I undertook to strike across fi-om Almdra to Milam, and retum by the Niti 
pass. I had once before, in 1869, been through the Milam pass, but I was so 
distressed by constant pains when at high elevations, that I made no observations 
worth recording. A judicious preparatory training enabled me on the present 
occasion to enter tbe lists, and fight with fair .success, against the trials of high- 
region travelling, and my note-book was brought more into requisition. 
The time of year at which we started was too unfavourable to make any 
other than road-side observations among the lower hills. We were in almost 
constant rain during our first ten marches, and, however enthusiastic our aspira¬ 
tions in the cause of geology at the outset of each day’s journey were, they could 
not withstand the depressing effect of recm’ring downpours of water, and we 
hurried to shelter as the most prudent course to pursue. It was not until we 
reached the Bhotia village of Rilkdt, that we passed out of the region of 
rain. 
We were fortunate enough to secure a small collection of organic remains, 
which, on examination by Dr. Waagen, afforded e-vidence of the presence of 
several formations not hitherto detected in this region, and bringing the section 
here more into correspondence with the sequence of fossiliferous strata estab¬ 
lished by Dr. Stoliezka in the North-Western Himalayas. To this extent our 
trip was a satisfactory one ; we failed, in that we made no attempt to fix accurately 
any geological boundaries. 
It is easy, however, to reduce within narrow limits the debatable border-land 
of the fossiliferous and non-fossiliferous rocks, and certain localities can be 
