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6. Iron Ores from the Bababudan Hills; limestones used as flux; various grades of charcoal; pig iron; wood-tar, calcium acetate and methyl alcohol, manufactured by the Mysore Wood Distillation and Iron Works. Presented by the Geological Survey of Mysore.

7. High-grade lead-silver ore and zinc-lead ore from the Bawdwin Mine. Presented by the Burma Corporation, Ltd. 8. Twenty-six specimens of manganese ores from the Sooklee, Miragpur and Selwa Mines. Presented by the Central Indian Mining Co., Ltd.

9. Cassiterite and wolfram from the Hermyingyi, Kanbauk and Widnes mines, Tavoy district, Burma. Presented by Burma Finance and Mining, Ltd., the Kanbauk (Burma) Wolfram Mines, Ltd., and the High Speed Steel Alloys, Ltd. 10. A series of specimens illustrating the processes involved in the production of metallic tungsten from wolfram. Presented by the High Speed Steel Alloys, Ltd. of Widnes, England.

11. Ilmenite sand from Travancore. Presented by Messrs. Hopkin and Williams, Ltd., Colachel.

12. Zircon sand from Travancore. Presented by Messrs. Hopkin and Williams, Ltd., Colachel.

13. Garnet sand from Travancore. Presented by Messrs. Hopkin and Williams, Ltd., Colachel.

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14. Crude asbestos and prepared material made from it. sented by the Feudatory Chief of Seraikela, Bihar and Orissa.

15. Barytes-" massive lump," "picked lump" and "crushed." Presented by the Indian Minerals Co., Betamcherla, Karnul district, Madras.

16. Borax, refined from crude Tibetan "Tincal". Presented by B. Sheopratap, Esq., Calcutta.

17. Coal from various seams of the Raniganj coalfield. Pre

sented by the Bengal Coal Co., Ltd., Messrs. Andrew Yule & Co., Messrs. Burn & Co., Messrs. Martin & Co. and Messrs. Balmer, Lawrie & Co.

18. Coal from various seams of the Jharia coalfield.

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by Messrs. Martin & Co., Messrs. Andrew Yule & Co., the East India Coal Co., Messrs. Anderson Wright & Co. and Messrs. Kilburn & Co.

19. Coal from various seams of the Giridih coalfield. Presented by the East Indian Railway Co., Ltd.

20. Coal from the Singareni coalfield. Presented by the Singareni Collieries Co., Ltd.

21. Coal from the Pench Valley coalfield, Central Provinces. Presented by Messrs. Shaw Wallace & Co.

22. Coal from the Umaria coalfield. Presented by His Highness the Maharaja of Rewa.

23. Coal from the Makum coalfield. Presented by the Assam Railways and Trading Co., Ltd.

24. Hard coke, coal-tar and sulphate of ammonia, from the Loyabad By-product plant, Jharia. Presented by the Barakar Coal Co., Ltd.

25. Graphite from Travancore. Presented by Messrs. Hopkin & Williams, Colachel.

26. Magnesite" crude lump," "lightly calcined lump," "lightly calcined ground and sintered." Presented by the Magnesite Syndicate, Ltd., Suramangalam, Madras.

27. Magnesium Chloride, Magnesium Sulphate, refined salt, and brine, from Kharaghoda, Bombay. Presented by the Pioneer Magnesia Works.

28. Many specimens of light and dark coloured phlogopite mica from Travancore. Presented by Messrs. Hopkin and Williams, Ltd., Colachel.

29. A very large collection of the various sizes and grades of prepared Nellore Muscovite mica. Presented by the following donors through the Director of Industries, Madras M. R. Ry. Venkatappa Naidu of Kadapah, The Krishna Mining Co., The Tellabodu Co., M. R. Ry. Vellattur Venkatah Naidu, M. R. Ry. Vissa Lakshminarasayya Pantalu, M. R. Ry. Subbaraghava Iyer, K. C. Narasinha Chariar, M. R. Ry. Sundararama Pillay, M. R. Ry. Kandamur Venkatasubbaya, M. R. Ry. Yellisiri Subba Reddy, the Sankara Mining Syndicate, M. R. Ry. Veeraghava Reddy, the Kalichedu Mining Co., and M. R. Ry. Pitchiah and M. R. Ry. G. Lakshinarayudu.

30. Monazite sand from Travancore. Presented by Messrs. Hopkin and Williams, Ltd., Colachel,

31. Crude and levigated yellow ochre and golden-yellow paint made therefrom. Presented by Messrs. Turner, Morrison & Co., Calcutta.

32. Red oxide of iron and red ochre from the Bellary district, Madras; yellow ochre from the Karnul district, Madras. Presented by the Indian Minerals Co., Betamcherla.

33. Four cubes of Mirzapur sandstone. Presented by Messrs. George Henderson & Co., Ltd., Calcutta.

34. Crude petroleum and ten specimens of various oils and wax distilled therefrom, from the Digboi Oilfield, Assam. Presented by the Assam Oil Co., Ltd.

35. Two specimens of crude petroleum from the Badarpur oilfield, Assam. Presented by the Burmah Oil Co., Ltd.

36. Crude petroleum and seventeen specimens of various oils made therefrom, from the Khaur oilfield, Punjab. Presented by the Attock Oil Co., Ltd.

37. A large collection of phosphatic nodules, from the Trichinopoly district, Madras. Presented by Messrs. Staines & Co., Coimbatore.

38. Apatite-magnetite rock from the Singhbhum district, Bihar and Orissa. Presented by Messrs. Shaw Wallace & Co., Calcutta.

39. Ground apatite rock. Presented by the Indian Phosphates Syndicate, Calcutta.

40. Potash salts from the Salt Range. Presented by the Northern India Salt Revenue Department.

41. Fireclay and fire bricks; quartzite and silica bricks. Presented by the Kumardhubi Fire Clay & Silica Brick Co., Ltd.

42. Large cubes of white and pink Rock-salt. Presented by the Northern India Salt Revenue Department.

43. A large collection of slates and slate utensils of various kinds, from the Kharakpur Hills, Bihar and Orissa. Presented by Messrs. Ambler & Co., Calcutta.

44. Roofing slates of various sizes, from the Kangra Valley Punjab. Presented by the Kangra Valley Slate Co., Ltd.

45. Kaolin, from the Rajmahal Hills. Presented by the Cal

cutta Potteries, Ltd.

46. Glass sand, from the Rajmahal Hills. Presented by the Director of Industries, Bengal.

47. Agate pebbles and Carnelian beads. Presented by the Director of Industries, Bombay.

48. Topaz crystals and plates; aquamarine, from Sakangyi ; Katha district, Burma. Presented by A. H. Morgan, Esq., Chief Engineer, Burma Ruby Mines, Ltd.

PALÆONTOLOGY.

During the year Dr. G. de P. Cotter's memoir entitled "The Lamellibranchiata of the Eocene of Burma was published in the Paleontologia Indica, as volume VII, Memoir No. 2, of the New Series. The specimens themselves were collected between the years 1910 and 1911 by Dr. Cotter, the late Mr. H. S. Bion and Rao Bahadur Sethu Rama Rau; they comprise twenty species from the Yaw stage, of which fourteen are new, and five species from the Pondaung Sandstone, two of which are new to Science.

Dr. Erich Spengler's memoir entitled "Contributions to the Paleontology of Assam, has also appeared as volume VIII, Memoir No. 1 of the New Series of the Paleontologia Indica. The greater part of the material described was derived from an old collection, which was already known in the year 1869, when H. B. Medlicott's "Geological Sketch of the Shillong Plateau in North-Eastern Bengal," was published (Mem., Geol. Surv. Ind., vol. VII, pp. 151-207). The remainder was collected some years ago by Mr. P. N. Bose and by Lieutenant-Colonel Godwin Austen, F.R.S. Of the ninety-four forms of upper Cretaceous fossils examined by Dr. Spengler, the state of preservation of twenty-five did not admit of specific determination, while ten species were new. Of the remainder, fifty per cent. proved to be identical with species from the South Indian Ariyalur group, including Stigmatopygus elatus, Ostræa (Alectryonia) ungulata, Nerita devaricata, Lyria crassicostata and Baculites vagina. Three of the new species are also very closely related to species from the Ariyalur group. Sixty-one per cent. of the specifically determinable forms belong to the Upper Senonian.

Dr. Spengler considers that his analysis of the relationship between the Upper Senonian faunas of S. India (Ariyalur), Assam and Baluchistan "shows clearly that the fauna of Assam occupies a

medium position between that of South India and that of Baluchistan." If, however, we take into account the difference in size of the three known faunas, the intermediate position of the Assam fauna between the other two does not appear so clearly established. Assam may be in a numerically intermediate position but the intermediacy seems to be of so slight a nature as to be of no reliable significance. All that seems justifiable is the conclusion that the faunas of Assam and S. India are closely similar and evidently belong to the same life province. The question is important as bearing on the existence or non-existence of a sea-connection between Assam and Baluchistan via the Indo-Gangetic trough in Cretaceous times. Amongst the supposed upper Cretaceous fossils of the Khasi Hills, Dr. Spengler found three echinoids of Tertiary age, one of which proved to be a new species.

Dr. Cowper Reed has continued his investigation of the upper Carboniferous fauna of Chitral and the Pamirs, and of the Carboniferous, Permian and Triassic fossils collected in Yunnan some years. ago by Dr. Coggin Brown. The plates illustrating the former memoir are completed while those accompanying the latter are in an advanced condition. Both memoirs should be issued in the Paleontologia Indica in the coming year.

The very numerous text figures which illustrate Mr. Forster Cooper's "Anthracotheriidae of the Dera Bugti deposits in Baluchistan," have been finished.

Owing to the extreme pressure of work in the Drawing office and the loss of time caused by illness during a particularly unhealthy year amongst the staff, it was found impossible to proceed with the preparation of the plates which form part of the late Mr. E. W. Vredenburg's memoir on "Mollusca from the Post-Eocene Tertiary formations of North-West India," and of his "Review of the genus Gisortia." Work on these materials is, however, now in progress. For the same reasons the preparation of the plates for the late Captain R. W. Palmer's paper on "An Incomplete Skull of Dinotherium, with notes on Indian forms," was also delayed.

The following papers of paleontological interest appeared in the Records during the year

(1)“Indian Tertiary Gastropoda, IV; Olividæ, Harpidæ, Marginellida, Volutida, and Mitride" by the late E. W. Vredenburg.