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March 25. Falconer says a Parkinsonia, an undoubtedly American plant has spread all over to Punjaub, even into quite desolate places & forests.

Forbes says Morris has found green-sand & Wealden plants identical — which is a considerable gap.—

The Pyrenees beds intermediate between Eocene & Cretaceous with equivalent in Balouchistan seem to hold good. How many species peculiar? to the Pyrenees— good cases of lost Faunæ — — Chonetes sarcinulata, which

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from the Falklands, which is only shells most closely allied if not identical with a European species, has a very deep range from bottom of Silurian to upper Carboniferous.

Animals & plants go together in E. Ind. Arch. see map—

One Terebratula is common to Australian Palæozoic & European & a living species of this genus is now common to these distant points.—