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three in tlie Sei-ampur area/ and five in the Karharhari area® of the field. 
They come out of the shales in the roof of the seam. 
It is this seam which has the greatest number of the peculiar fossils, and is 
most closely connected with the Talchir group. Of the common Damuda 
fossils we find Glossopteris, only rarely, and of Vedebraria, only two very small 
fragments were met with at one locality. No. 5D shaft, Passerahhia. 
During my recent visit to the field, I did not collect many fossils from the 
bottom seam, but I happened to discover, amongst other rock specimens lying 
at the manager’s office at Giridi, two nice specimens of fossils which Mr. Olpherts 
was kind enough to present to our Museum. 
One of the specimens is from the bottom seam (No. 6D shaft) at Passerahhia 
(Karharhari), the other from the same seam (No. IIA shaft) at Buriadi 
(Serampur). 
I also secui'ed other duplicate fossils from these two shafts. 
There are amongst them— 
Neurojderis valida, Pstm., from both shafts. 
Nogyerathiopsis liislogn, Pstm., also from both shafts. 
Of this latter the two specimens presented by Mr. Olpherts are very large 
leaves, the largest we at present know from India; they will bo figui’ed in a 
supplemental fasciculus to the Talchir-Karharbari flora of the Palsnontologia 
Indica; the specimen from Buriadi is almost complete, the basal portion only 
being broken off, while the apical portion is perfect. The Passerahhia specimen 
is although almost as large as the former, not so complete, a good deal of the 
apical portion being wanting; it shows, however, quite well the chai’acters of the 
species, and must originally have been of a very large size. 
The sections of these two shafts, showing the position of the fossiliferous 
shale, have been given in my Talchir-Karharbari flora,® to which I now refer. 
I have picked up a few fossils at a new locality. No. 5 shaft, Jogitand, 
which also woi’ks the bottom seam. I give the section in descending order''’;— 
No. 5 shaft, Jogitand. 
Soil. 
Sandy brown clay 
Sandstone .. . 
Strong dark shale ......... 
Sandstone ........... 
Strong dark shale with bands of coal (includes representative of 
2nd seam).. 
Xo. 1 seam: coal 
1 ’ 
38' 
18' 
5' 9" 
47' 3" 
5' 3" I Fossils from 
tile base of 
this band. 
12 ' 
Total . . 127' 3" 
' Buriadi (llA); Clmnka (JIos. 16 and 16G shafts). 
® Passerahhia (Nos. 51) and 5G shafts); Mathadi (No. 1); Jogitand (No. 2) Domanighat. 
® Pal. Indica, Ser. XII, pt. 1, pp. 36, 39. 
■* Tliis and the two following sections were kindly supplied by Mr. W. G. Olpherts. 
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