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tliin-bcdcled limestones with intermediate earthy beds, the whole thickness 
measuring from 500 to 800 feet. The material of the intermediate beds spreads 
itself so greatly in some sections, that the whole series appears to consist only^ 
of soft clayslate. Under these lie yellowish-red sandstones of very variable 
thickness, from 15 to 100 feet. These beds are best exposed on the Krol 
mountain, whence they are called by Medlicott the Krol group. Under these lie 
from 1,000 to 2,000 feet in thickness of blackish coaly clayslates, composing 
the Infra-Krol gronji. Still further down wo find white quartzites, comjjact 
limestones, and thick conglomerates with sand.stones, which form Medlicott’s 
Blini (Blaini) group. These are finally underlaid by roofing slates and sand¬ 
stones, which Medlicott united in his Tnfra-Blini group. These rest on true 
crystalline schists. We have thus a series of beds several thousand feet in thick¬ 
ness in which not a single bed or division can bo determined as to its age.^ 
Stoliezka, it is true, has attempted to establish a correlation with the bed.s 
on the north side of the first crystalline zone, but in so doing he leans only 
on suppositions, and finds it impo-ssible to adduce a positive proof.® Ho holds 
that the crystalline schists below the Infra-Blini group represent the lower 
part of the Babeh series, and the Infra-Blini group with the Simla slates, 
the upper part of that series. The Blini conglomerate he ranks with the 
lowest divisions of the Muth scries, the Blini limestones with the middle 
' In order to characterize with the fewest possible words this uhsolute uncertainty, I had, vrlien 
alluding to these beds in a short addre.ss to the German Geological Society (Zeitschrift d. D. Geoh 
Ges. XXVIII, p. 644), used the expression that these hods might possibly also be nunnnuUtic; this 
•was certainly rather a strong expression, but it expressed the position of things. 1 believed at that 
time that the strata aronud Simla might abso, on account of the almost absolute absence of all or¬ 
ganic remains, be reckoned to the iieninsnhir type, but recent discoveries by Lydokker have clearly 
shown the contrary. But even this error does not justify the manner in wliicU Medlicott has on 
that account attacked me (Record.s Geol. .Survey of India, X, p. lOO) without bringing home any¬ 
thing positive against me. Mr. Medlicott appears, above all things, to have overlooked the fact 
that the statements in question were not presented as a paper, but as an op,al address, which I was 
compelled to make as brief as ]K)8sibly could be. All my audience knew very well that I had only 
given a sketch, and that all details and pu-oots were partly already printed and partly reserved for a 
special essay. It is not possible to use “ foot notes” in speaking. What, therefore, Medlicott wrote- 
about the purloining of the Key to Indian Geology, I may ignore with a clear conscience ; it merely 
proves that Medlicott’s criticism was written in a very high state of excitement. But 1 must e.x- 
press my deepest regret that the few words which 1 spoke at Jena, and which I thought quite harm¬ 
less, should not only have given occasion for contemptuous utterances about the whole science 
of paleontology, but also have served as a pu-etext to ropwoach the highly hononible German Geolo¬ 
gical Society with a system of mutual laudation, and evi'n the whole Toutmiie race with being 
sunk in barbaric instincts. Finally, 1 cannot avoid remarking tluit 1 should cw'tainly have expiect- 
ed from the llii'cctor of the Indian Geological Survey very much more considerate treatment after 
having sacrificed to the service of the depiartmeut my hetilth, fortune, and means of living in 
Kuropie. 
[Mr. Medlicott confesses with sorrow that he did become rather excited at Dr. Waagen’s short 
address to the German Geological Society. For the rest, those who choose cannot fail to discern 
that impatience atpirematnro and oracular spjoculatiou indicates respect, rather than contempd, for 
the science of paleontology.—H. B. M.] 
® Stoliezka; Mem. Geol. Surv. of India, V, p. 141. 
