iPART 1.] Annual Hepori for 18/S. 9 
Itliat they belong ratber to tliat still lower horizon of coal-boaring strata, represented 
I by the Karharbari measures in Bengal. 
On the western confines of the Peninsula, wher-e the Gonclwanas Ijecome 
associated with marine strata, Mr. Feddon broke new groxrnd in Kattywar. He 
was detained by office work in Calcutta, in clas.sifying some of the collections made 
by hipi in previous years, and arranging them in the new Mnseixm, and he conse¬ 
quently did not take the field till the end of 1877. In the early months of 
the past year he surveyed a portion of Kattywar, amounting to about 1,800 
square miles, comprised in Topographical Survey sheets 21, 22, 23, and 
portions of some of those adjoining. Mr. Fedden speaks vei'y highly of the 
excellence of these maps. The country examined is for the most part flat, and 
the rocks consist of Deccan traps, overlying sandstone, in which some remains of 
plants wei’e found. These plants prove to be identical with those occurring in 
the uppermost Jurassic or Umia beds of Cutch, and it is thus clear that a portion 
at least of the Cutch Jurassic series extends into Northern Kattywar. 
The greater part of the area examined consists of Jurassic sandstone, the hills 
being of trap; but to the southward, where the surface is mox'c hilly, the tx-aps 
cover the countx-y. The beds, both of sandstone and trap, are nearly horizontal. 
Tn some places between the Jurassic beds and the traps a tlxin band of limestoxxe 
is found, which coixtains a few obscure maxune ox’ganisms. This band xnay peiffiaps 
represent the Bagh beds of the Narbada valley. A few intex’trappean bands are 
found, and some oxxtlying patches of milliolite were noticed resting on the trap. 
In Soxxthern India Mr. Foote took up new groxxnd to the south of Trichino- 
poly. In cx’ossing the cretaceous area he made some valuable additions to oixr 
fossil collections from those formations. He also I’o-examixied the localities 
where the Utatur plant beds occur at the base of the series. He completely 
identifies them with the Jurassic beds containing both plants and max’ine animal 
remains, described by himself, at many points along the coastal region up to the 
Kistna. From the entix-e similaiuty of the fossil plants and their mode of pre¬ 
servation to those of the deposits elsewhex-e in which marine fossils are descx'ibcd 
in the same beds, Mr. Foote is of opinion that the Utatur plant beds also are 
probably marine; in support of which view he mentions his inability to find 
stratigraixhical evidence (xnox-e than overlap) of a break between them and the 
overlying middle cretaceous deposits, thus confix-ming the px’evious obsexwation 
of others xxpon this interestixig point. Mr. Foote’s notes upon these featux’cs ax’o 
published ixx the Records for the year. 
The country south of Tanjorc has, so fax-, proved very xininteresting; no rock 
appearing between the gneiss and the coast alluvium, except the Cuddalox-e sand¬ 
stone formation, intimately blended with the covei'ing laterite. 
Extra Penmsidar area .—In the extreme North-Western Punjab, Mr. Wynne 
made a px’elimiixary examination of some new ground in Hazara, havung been 
prevented by diflicxxlties on the frontier from following the fox’mations of the Salt 
Range across the Indus into Bannu, as had been px’oposed. Owing to the excep¬ 
tionally wet season, and illness occasioned theraby, the amount and details of the 
