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no moans convinced of the genuineness of some of the fossils in 
the Oxford Museum, but the note throws no light on the cir¬ 
cumstances and dates of their transmission from India. 
Now, however, that Ammonites of distinctly Liassic affi¬ 
nities, the authenticity of which cannot he questioned, have 
been obtained from Gnari Khorsum by Mr. Schlagintweit, and 
that Dr. Stoliczka has obtained Liassic fossils from Spiti, the 
question of the genuineness of certain specimens in Dr. Ge¬ 
rardos collection has lost very much of its interest, and is 
restricted to the authenticity of certain specimens in the 
Calcutta and Oxford Museums, and to the inference to be 
drawn therefrom of the occurrence of the four or five disputed 
species in the Liassic rocks of the North Himalya. These 
do not appear to me of sufficient importance to warrant the 
prolongation of the discussion to which the fossils originally 
“ Ammonites bifrons ( Walcottii) ; such occur at Whitby. The variety of 
A. communis called crcissus, is found both at Whitby, and in this series, from 
the Himalaya ! 
“ JPachi/odon Listeri in plenty. It is not quite like ordinary English specimens. 
“ Small Spirifera of the Liassic type, such as occurs in South of England, not 
in Yorkshire. 
“ With this Spirifera in plenty , occur :— 
“ Bhynchonella of the types concinna and olsoleta. In separate masses. 
* ‘ Avicula like Braambwriensis. 
“ Astarte. 
Trigonia of a type near middle and top of Bath Oolite series, not quite 
like any English form, and separate. 
“ Belemnites of the group B. sulcatus, Miller, probably of Oxford clay. 
“ Paloeozoic Fossils also occur, including,— 
tc Prod, antiquata. 
“ Spirifer 1 
2 . 
3. aitemata 
“ Strophomena. 
(Sd.) ‘JOHN PHILLIPS/ 
Oxford. 
“ 2nd June 1804.” 
