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At the same time it will, I think, be advisable to hesitate before accepting as proved 
the age assigned to the different formations on palseobotanical grounds. Dr. Feistmantel 
has already noticed (ante p. 34) the palaeontological contradiction, as be very justly terms 
it, between the evidence derived from the animal remains in Kachb (Catch) and that offered 
by the fossil plants. This contradiction is, however, much greater than would be supposed 
irom Dr. Feistmantel’s remark. The matter is so important in its bearing ou the relations 
of Indian rocks that it will be well briefly to recapitulate the history of the examination 
of the Kachh beds by the Survey. 
From a very cursory examination which I made in 1863 of a small portion of the pro- 
vmce,* * * § I was led to believe that the plant-bearing beds in Kachh, as a whole, rest upon the 
series of rocks with marine fossils of jurassic age, but that in some cases marine beds are 
intercalated with the upper plant-bearing group, and I pointed out that if they are not inter- 
stratified, certain fossiliferous bands in the Ch&rwar range south of Bhooj must have been 
brought up by a fault. Messrs. Wynne and Fedden surveyed Kachh in 1867-68-69,f the 
jurassic rocks being chiefly examined by Mr. Wynne, who found that a fault really exists, 
bringing up the rocks of the Charwar range; consequently the principal grounds on which 
my belief m the interstratification of the marine and plant-bearing strata were founded 
proved untenable. Some information I had received as to the occurrence of marine fossils 
near BlioojJ appears also to have been incorrect. At the same time, the conclusion at which 
I had arrived, that both marine and fresh-water beds belong to one series, and that the two 
pass into each other, was entirely confirmed by Mr. Wynne. He also found in some places 
unquestionable intercalation of the plant-beds with strata containing marine fossils.§ 
The. Cephalopoda collected by Messrs. Wynne and Fedden were examined by Dr. 
Waagen,|| who found that those from different localities showed the existence of several 
distinct groups of jurassic strata, ranging from Lower Oolite (Bathoniau) to Uppermost 
Oolite (Portlandian and Titkonian). Dr. Stoliczka went to Kachh in 1872, and spent several 
months m examining the rocks. He ascertained that four separate groups of jurassic beds, 
distinguished by well-marked mineralogical and palaeontological characters, can be traced 
throughout the area occupied by the rocks of Oolitic age. These groups he called_ 
1. Umia (Oomia)... 
2. Katbol . 
3. Chaei (Charee) 
4. Pacham (Patchum) ... 
Tithonian and Portlandian. 
Kimmeridge and Upper Oxford. 
Lower Oxford and Kelloway (Callovian). 
Bath Oolite. 
Dr. Stoliczka s names were adopted in Dr. Waagen’s account of the Jurassic Cephalopoda 
of Kachh,If and the groups referred to the abovementioned European sub-divisions of the 
jurassic series. 
No account of Dr. Stoliczka’s work in Kachh has ever been published. Shortly after 
returning he left with the mission for Turkestan, and he died on the return journey. The 
note books used by him in Kachh are amongst the survey records ; they contain a very full 
account of his exploration of the province, and after reading them through, I think there 
* Mem. Geol. Surv., India, VI, p. 17. 
t Mem. Geol. Surv., India, IX, pp. 1—289. 
t Mem. Geol. Surv., India, VI, p. ll. 
§ 1. c., pp. 51, 210, 213, 215, 216. 
II Rec., Geol. Surv., India, IV, p. 89. 
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