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the species formerly described as Amm. Beudanti is different from the European fossil, 
and has to stand under the name Amm. Yama, while the specimen formerly noticed 
under that name is identical with Amm. dipliylloides. Several other species formerly 
described by For-bes under the names of Amm. Soma, Amm. Neva, Garuda, and others have 
been found to be identical with other known species; the specific name Amm. inflatus has 
to be replaced by that of Amm. restrains ; Amm. CunUffei is a Scaphite, and the species 
noticed as Scaph. ce.qv.alis has to be changed to Sc. similaris, n. sp.; and last Anisoceras 
sub-compressum has been found identical with Ait is. rugatum. 
These changes reduce the number* of Cephalopoda from 148 to 146, three species 
having been identified with others, but one was newly added; the genera represented are, 
Belemnites with 3 species, Nautilus with 22, Ammonites with 91, Scapfiites with 4, 
Anisoceras with 10, Helicoceras with 1, Turrilites with 6, Ha-mites with 2, and Hamulina 
with 1, Ptyclioceras with 3, Baculites with 3. The list of the 38 species identical with 
those of Europe and other countries must be reduced by one, for though Amm. Yama and 
Sc. similaris must now be considered respectively as distinct from Amm. Beudanti and 
Sc. aqualis, I have recorded the occurrence of Hamulina sublevis in the Bohemian creta¬ 
ceous deposits. 
Lead in the district of Baepoee, Central Provinces.—In the month of May 
last, a specimen of lead ore was received from the Deputy Commissioner of Eaepore, with a 
request for information as to its nature and value. It was stated by Captain Twyford to be 
found extensively in the hills between Eaepore and Balaghat, and also near Chicholee, where 
there is a Dak Bungalow on the great eastern road. On examination it proved to be galena 
in crystalline masses imbedded in green fluor-spar forming a vein in quartz. On assay 
only a trace of silver was found to be associated with the lead. The impossibility of forming 
any idea of the commercial value of a metallic vein or lode from a hand specimen was also 
noticed. 
Subsequently very similar specimens were forwarded by Colonel J. E. Gastrell, Deputy 
Surveyor General, together with copies of letters from Mr. E. B. Smart, Bevenue Surveyor, 
who bad collected these himself on the spot. He describes the locality thus : 1 The hills in 
which the ore is found are situated in the lands of Khyragurh and Nandgaon, and three miles 
to the west of Chicholee Dak Bungalow, near the village of Baneetalao, and Nandga. 
The hills consist of large masses of quartz imbedded in black earth. The metal runs 
through the quartz in veins and crusts.’ Mr. Smart considered it to be not galena, but the 
tersulphide of antimony. 
These better specimens enabled us to cupell a larger portion of the ore, but with the 
same results ; the amount of silver present, although appreciable, is not sufficient to be of any 
practical value. There is no antimony present. Fluor-spar is more abundant than was at 
first thought, and the colour is quite as frequently of a rich purple as greenish. 
From Mr. Smart’s description the specimens sent appear to have been derived from 
loose blocks, but there can be no question that they formed part of a regular vein, which 
must have existed where these loose blocks were derived from. And in all probability 
this was at no great distance from the spot where they were found. It will be desirable 
to trace out this lode, and prove its extent or value. It looks, both as to rock and gangue, 
decidedly promising.— July 1868.—(T. 0.) 
Coal in the Easteen Hemispheee. —The vast importance of any local supplies 
of coal in the eastern seas, both as bearing on the development of navigation and commerce, 
and as tending to relieve the intensity of the strain on the limited resources of Great Britain, 
from which hitherto most of the supply has been derived, renders peculiarly interesting at 
the present time any trustworthy inlormation regarding the various sources from which coal 
may possibly be procured, their exact locality, probable extent, and the character and value 
of the fuel obtainable. We have therefore abstracted, as briefly as possible, a paper 
* Those litre Amm. Snmu, Amm. New, ami pavatoa, etc., were not included in my paper published in Quart. Journ. 
Gcol. Soc., London, 1865, vol. XXI, p. 408. 
