I’AitT 4<.] Center : Note on lieh or Alkali Soils and Saline Well waters. 
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ArSTEALIA. 
South Apbica. 
Jurassic beds. 
Karoo beds 
(Glossopteris, fre¬ 
quent). 
Ekka bed 
(Houlder bed, 
action). 
Victoria. 
Upper mesozoic 
(Bellarine beds). 
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India. 
( Upper Gondwanas 
(Glossopteris, very 
rare). 
Pancheta and 
Uaiuudas 
(Glossopteris abundant 
in the latter). 
Karbarbari and 3 Baccbus-marsh- 
Talchir (Glossopteris, j beds. 
less; Gangamopteris, \(Gangamopteris, 
pi’edoniinant). [ abundant; 
(Talchir boulder bed, | Boulder bed, 
? ice-action). J ico-action). 
Unconformity, 
break. 
Unconformity 
break. 
Unconformity 
break. 
New South AVales. 
Mesozoic 
(Clarence river). 
AVianainatta beds 
and 
Hawkesbury rocks ; 
(Boulder bed, 
ice-action). 
Upper coal ine,asurGs. 
(New-castle beds; 
Glossopteris, abundant). 
Upper marine beds. 
Lower coal-measures. 
(Glossopteris, first ap¬ 
pearance). 
Lower marine beds. 
Devonian. 
Silurian. 
This list does not need any further comment. It would appear that the 
unconformity and hreak, which exists in A.frica, India, and Vic;;oria., between 
the Ekka beds, Talchir beds, and Bacchus-marsh beds respectively, and their 
underlying rocks, is in New South Wales filled in between the Hawkesbury 
rocks and the Devonian beds by the series of the Australian coal-bearing beds. 
If this surmise be correct, then an older ago, than carboniferous, for the 
Vindhyans of India, would bo an almost necessary conseipuence. 
Note on Reh ob Alkali Soils and Saline AVell waters, hj W. Center, M.B., 
Chemical Examiner, Punjab Government. 
A reference was made to this oflice by (xovernment regarding the treatment 
of reh or saline soils hy chemical manures. My predecessor, Dr. Brown, had 
written a report regarding the use of nitrate of lime as a remedy, and a copy of 
this was asked for. It could not be found in the records of the ofiice, but I after¬ 
wards found that it had been published in the Selections from the Records of the 
Ofiice of the Financial Commissioner, and the gist of it was embodied in Powell’s 
hook on Punjab Products. As I had made numerous analyses of such efflores¬ 
cences, and studied their connection with saline well waters, samples of which I 
had analysed from all parts of the Punjab, and as I had an opportunity of observ¬ 
ing and learning something of similar soils known as alkali soils in the Utah 
