. Report of the fifty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science [microform] : held at Montreal in August and September 1884. Congresses and conventions; Science; Congrès et conférences; Sciences. TRANSACTIONS OK SECTION C. 705 On tlie other hand there are remarkable points of agreement with the faunas and tlorns of the Indian and Australian rocks, Awiiy from the typical Karoo area on the coast south of Natal there is found a forie.^ of ;, partly marine, sometimes called the Uitenha^'o ' series. A few ivcail3 (Otiiz/oiiifrs, I'oduzumitvs, I'tcnip/ii/llum)
. Report of the fifty-fourth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science [microform] : held at Montreal in August and September 1884. Congresses and conventions; Science; Congrès et conférences; Sciences. TRANSACTIONS OK SECTION C. 705 On tlie other hand there are remarkable points of agreement with the faunas and tlorns of the Indian and Australian rocks, Awiiy from the typical Karoo area on the coast south of Natal there is found a forie.^ of ;, partly marine, sometimes called the Uitenha^'o ' series. A few ivcail3 (Otiiz/oiiifrs, I'oduzumitvs, I'tcnip/ii/llum), a conifer, and ferns (Pea>pten's or Alct/ioptcn's, Sp/ie>iojifcrii>, Ci/c/opfcn's) are quoted from them, and three or four of tlit> forms are closely allied or identical with species found in the lliijmahul beds of India. It was at first supposed that the plant-bearinpr beds v,-rYo lower in position than those contfiininp marine fossils, and the whole of the Uitenhaf^e series was con- ^i(ler('d as of later apfc than the Karoo beds. The marine beds were considered Middle Jurassic. Subsequently, however. Stow - showed conclusively that a por- tion (if tlie marine beds, judginjj: by tlieir fossils, are of uppermost Jurassic or even Xt'oroiniiin a^'e, and also tliat the lelation of the plant-beariufj^ beds to the marine strata are far less simple tlian was supposed.'' Indeed, ti judge from Stow's account, it is by no means clear that a portion of the wood-lied series or saliferous series, to which the plant-beds belong, is not higher in position than the marine Jurassic strata. There is a very extraordinary similarity between the geology of the southern part of Africa and that of the peninsula of India. In both countries a thick fresh- water formation, without any marine bt'ds intercalated, occu])ies a large area of the interior of the country, whilst on the coast some marine Jurassic and cretaceous rocks are found, the former in association with beds containing pla
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