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Mr. C. L. Griesbach, CLE., F.G.S., Director of thk Geological 

 Survey of India. 



The occasion of the retirement of Mr, C. Ludolf Gwesbach, 

 C.I.E., F.G.S. , etc., from the post of Director of the Geological 

 Survey of India, which took place on February 24:th, 1903, enables 

 one appropriately to refer to his past services in the cause of 

 geological science. 



Mr. C. L. Griesbach belongs to an old Hanoverian family, and 

 his grandfather settled in England in the time of H.M. King 

 George III. Most of his family were celebrated as musicians ; 

 one of his uncles, the Kev. W. R. Griesbach, held a church living 

 in Yorkshire, and was interested in geology. In his early life 

 Mr. Griesbach's family resided in Austria, and as a young man he 

 joined the Geological Survey in Vienna, and became by that means 

 an excellent field geologist and paleontologist. He was also an 

 accomplished artist. In 1869 he was chosen to join a German 

 expedition to explore the then but little known region of Portuguese 

 East Africa. After enduring with the members of the expedition 

 many hardships, owing to the loss of their ship, and from fever at 

 Delagoa Bay and on the Zambezi, Mr. Griesbach returned to Europe. 

 He published in Vienna, in 1870, " Geologischer Durchschnitt durch 

 Slid- Africa" (Jahrb. geol. Reichs., xx, p. 501); and in the year 

 following, when he came to London, a memoir " On the Geology 

 of Natal in South Africa" (see Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, 1871, 

 vol. xxvii, pp. 53-71, pis. ii and iii, with 5 text illustrations, 

 a, folding coloured geological map of Natal, and a double plate 

 of fossils). 



After seven years' residence in London, during which he was 

 engaged in scientific work and drawing, he was, upon the recom- 

 mendation of Professor Sir Eichard Owen, K.C.B., and Dr. Henry 

 Woodward, F.R.S., appointed 26th September, 1878, by the India 

 Office in London, to be an Assistant Superintendent to the Geological 

 Survey of India, and joined in Calcutta the same year. He passed 

 through various grades of promotion in each year from 1880 to 1884. 



From November, 1884, to October, 1886, Mr. Griesbach was 

 employed on the Afghan Boundary Commission, with the grade of 

 Deputy Superintendent, and advanced to first grade Superintendent 

 November, 1886. He was created a Companion of the Indian 

 Empire in February, 1887. From 14th January, 1888, to 22nd 

 July, 1889, his services were placed at the disposal of His Highness 

 the Amir of Kabul, made a Superintendent in June, 1889, and became 

 Director of the Geological Survey of India 17th July, 1894, on the 

 retirement of Dr. William King, F.G.S. 



When resident in London, Mr. Griesbach served for some years as 

 an officer in the Royal London Militia, now the 6th Battalion Royal 

 Fusiliers, and has since been retired with the rank of Lieut.-ColoneL 

 During his residence in India he was employed on the following 

 War Services, viz. : — 



