The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London . ssils mentioned wereall found in the Carboniferous limestones of the Kashmere_,valley andhave no connexion with the very imperfect specimens, said to be Pa-laeozoic, obtained near Skardo. I am afraid the labels on the fossilsmust have come off, or that by some means they got mixed same must have occurred to the land and freshwater sheUs senthome; for Helix hispida was obtained in the lacustrine clay of theKashmere valley, and not from Kuardo near Skardo. Some of theother shells are from other localities, but as I have no
The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London . ssils mentioned wereall found in the Carboniferous limestones of the Kashmere_,valley andhave no connexion with the very imperfect specimens, said to be Pa-laeozoic, obtained near Skardo. I am afraid the labels on the fossilsmust have come off, or that by some means they got mixed same must have occurred to the land and freshwater sheUs senthome; for Helix hispida was obtained in the lacustrine clay of theKashmere valley, and not from Kuardo near Skardo. Some of theother shells are from other localities, but as I have no duplicates Icannot remember whence they came. H. Godwin-Austen. Deyrah Dhoon,7th December, 1865. DAVIDSON THIBET BRACHIOPODA. 35 of the ridge, at the head of the ravine, in which valley I think thatthe lowest beds will be found. The section given in fig. 10 was taken on the south side of the Yihivalley, near the village of Loodoo, across a ravine beneath Was-terwan Peak. rig. 10.—Section on the south side of the Vihi Vcdlei/, near tlieVillage of Above the usual basement-rocks, consisting of the Hornblendicslate, of which a considerable thickness may here be seen, are feet 1. Dark splintery slate and quartz-rock, with badly-defined lamination ,. 20 2. Light olive-green splintery rock, very compact, fracture cuboidal, like 2 in fig. 5 ; 2 3. Beautiful white or light-grey quartz, like flint 1 4. Blue limestone, with beds which weather light-green 30 This is bed 3 of fig. 3; contains the same species in great lower beds contain, or may be said to be made up of Fenestellaa. 5. Dark-blue shales. These shales occur in the opposite side of the ravine, and are sur-mounted by a great mass of hard compact limestone (l), weatheringto a red tint, and containing Goniatites. Note on some Carbonifekous, Jurassic, and Cretaceous (?) Brachio-poDA, collected by Captain Godwin-Austen in the Mustakh Hills,in Thibet. By Thomas Davidson, Esq., , (Plate I.)§ 1. Car
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