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IV.—Notes on the Cephalopoda Belonging to the Strachey Collection from the Himalaya. Part I: Jurassic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

G. C. Crick
Affiliation:
Assoc. R.S.M., F.G.S., of the British Museum (Natural History).

Extract

In 1851 Captain (now Sir) Richard Strachey communicated to the Geological Society of London a paper ”On the Geology of Part of the Himalaya Mountains and Tibet,” based upon the observations which he had made during the years 1848 and 1849. The Palæozoic and Secondary fossils therein mentioned were described in 1865 by J. W. Salter and H. F. Blanford respectively in a work of which the title-page reads as follows: “Palæontology of Niti in the Northern Himalaya: being descriptions and figures of the Palæozoic and Secondary Fossils collected by Colonel Richard Strachey, R.E. Descriptions by J. W. Salter, F.G.S., A.L.S., and H. F. Blanford, A.R.S.M., F.G.S. Reprinted with slight corrections for private circulation from Colonel Strachey's forthcoming work on the Physical Geography of the Northern Himalaya. Calcutta: O. T. Cutter, Military Orphan Press. March, 1865.”

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page 61 note 1 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. vii (1851), pp. 292–310.

page 61 note 2 This work was never published.

page 62 note 1 Crick, G. C.: Proc. Malac. Soc., vol. V, part 4 (April, 1903), p. 286.Google Scholar

page 62 note 2 Compare, for example, in the two sets, pl. xi, figs, 1c, 2c; pl. xiii, fig. 1a; pl. xv, fig. 1a; pl. xvi, figs. 1a, 2a; pl. xvii, figs. 2a, b; pl. xxi, fig. 1b.

page 62 note 3 Respecting the locality of these Ammonites Dr. W. T. Blanford, who was for many years connected with the Geological Survey of India, writes (Proc. Malac. Soc., vol. v, No. 6, October, 1903, p. 345):—”So far as I am aware, no such place as ‘Sulgranees’ is known, and I may add that it is very doubtful whether the Ammonites represented in the ‘Illustrations’ came originally from Nepal at all; it is more probable they were brought from further west, from the region whence Ammonites have been supplied to India in all probability for ages. It is certain ihat there has long been an importation of small Ammonites into India from the Tibetan side of the Himalayas, chiefly from the Spiti district, N.N.E. of Simla, or from the neighbourhood of the Niti pass, north of Kumaun. These Ammonites, together with certain other stones, are known to Hindus by the name of ‘Saligram.’ I think it is probable that this name, slightly modified and written Sulgranees, has been mistaken for the locality of the fossils.”

page 63 note 1 SeeBlake, Professor J. F., “List of the Types and Figured Specimens in the Collection of the Geological Society of London,” 1902, pp. 34 and 55.Google Scholar

page 63 note 2 The numbers in square brackets refer to the Registers in the Geological Department, British Museum (Natural History).

page 63 note 3 From a comparison with the Silurian Cephalopoda in the Strachey Collection it is quite evident that these numbers refer to Colonel Strachey's Catalogue of Localities referred to by Salter on p. 4 at the end of his description of Asaphus emodi.

page 63 note 4 The specimen is duly recorded inProfessor Blake's, “List of the Types and Figured Specimens in the'Geological Society of London,” 1902, p. 55.Google Scholar

page 65 note 1 Crick, G. C.: Proc. Malac. Soc., vol. V, pt. 4 (April, 1903), p. 285.Google Scholar

page 65 note 2 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. vii (1851), p. 294.

page 65 note 3 SeeProfessor Blake's, J. F. “List of the Types and Figured Specimens in the Collection of the Geological Society of London,” 1902, p. 34.Google Scholar

page 66 note 1 Crick, G. C.: Proc. Malac. Soc., vol. V, pt. 4 (April, 1903), pp. 286–7.Google Scholar

page 66 note 2 Professor Blake, J. P.: “List of the Types and Figured Specimens in the Collection of the Geological Society of London,’ 1902, p. 34.Google Scholar

page 66 note 3 Crick, G. C.: Proc. Malac. Soc., vol. V, pt. 4 (April, 1903), pp. 288–9.Google Scholar

page 67 note 1 Pal. Mittheil., 1863, p. 283, pl. lxxx, figs. 3a, b.

page 67 note 2 Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol. xxxii, No. 2 (1863), p. 132, pl. iv, figs. 2, 2a, 2b.

page 68 note 1 Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, vol. xxxii, No. 2 (1863), p. 131, pl. iv, figs. 1, 1a, 1b. According toF., Stoliczka, the type-specimen “is deposited in the Asiatic Society's collection, Calcutta” (Mem. Geol. Surv. India, vol. V, 1866, p. 104, footnote).Google Scholar

page 68 note 2 Pal. Mittheil., iv (1863), p. 279, pl. lxxviii, figs. 1a, b, 2a, b.

page 68 note 3 Palæont. Niti, 1865, p. 106.