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Records of Ihe Geological Sicrveg of India. 
[voL. xiir. 
Tlie fossils found represent, however, one species only :— 
NdggeratMojjsis Jvislojpi, Fstm. 
The position of the fossiliferons band is the same as in No. 2 shaft Jogitand 
(1. c. pp. 42, 43) ; three species were named from this latter shaft, which are those 
of the bottom seam elsewhere. 
We now know, therefore, fossils from the bottom scam from the following 
places:— 
Kai’liai'bari area. 
Serampiir area. 
Passerabliia, shafts No. 5D, No. 5G-; Matliadi, shaft 
No. 1; Jogitand, shafts No. 2, No. 5 ; Domahni ghat. 
Buriadi, shaft No. llxi; Clmnka, shafts No. 16 
and No. ]6Gr. 
Tlie thicknesses of the bottom seam at the respective places are 
11' (including 3' partings), 11' (including 3' partings), 1.3', 8', 12', 9’, 14', 
9', 12' 6". 
The coal belongs to the lowest hitherto known in India, and owes perhaps to 
this circumstance its superior quality. 
No, 2 seam. 
Already iii my Flora of the Talchir-Karharbari beds (?. c. pp. 39, 40) when 
quoting the sections of shafts Nos. 6D and 6G- (Passerabliia), I indicated the 
existence of a second seam above the bottom seam, separated from this latter 
at both places by a 2' 6" parting of laminated sandstones and shales, m which 
the fossils of the bottom seam were found; the coal measui-ed 7' 2" and 7' 
respectively ; both seams are worked together at these places. 
At Jogitand this second seam is much thinner, being 2'6' in No. 2 shaft, 
and being represented by dark shale in No. 5 ; the parting of black shale at No. 2 
is 2' 5" thick. 
At Matliadi the second seam is represented by only very thin bands of coal, 
separated by 6’ 7" sandstone and shale from the bottom seam. At Domahni ghat 
are two outcrops of coal, one of which is the second seam; in the Serampnr 
area there is also another seam close above the bottom seam which measures at 
Buriadi (shaft llxi) 2' 6", at Clmnka (shaft 16) 7' 6", and (shaft 16 G) 6', 
being separated from the bottom seam by 3' 3", 12' 6", and 6’ 6" sandstone and 
shale partings, from which latter the fossils were procured, by which the lower 
scam hero W'as correlated with the same in the Karhai’bfiri area. 
No fossils were up till lately known from the layers above the second seam, the 
reason of which certainly lies in the overlying rock at the places mentioned 
consisting of sandstone on ly, which is very badly adapted for preservation of 
plants. 
During my recent visit, however, I just came in time to collect fossils at 
tw'o pits which work the second seam separately, the bottom seam being not 
reached yet, or not cut through, so that I am now able, for the first time, to 
introduce fossils fx’om the second scam; the two shafts are in the Karharbari 
area, at Passorabhia, and their numbers are. No. 24 (29 new) and No. 40 (33 
