exciv Proceedings of the Asiatic Soc. of Bengal. [N.S., XVII, 
problems, afforestation, etc. A very desirable incidental result 
which may be expected to accrue from a multiplication of such 
surveys in different parts of India, is the probability of an in- 
creased number of trial bores being put down for prospecting 
purposes. Though many of these may not achieve the speci- 
ey were undertaken, their eee 
table as India. By so much Sierekows, the counties is poor in 
data of underground conditions, from which a considerable 
body of facts affecting adjacent parts are deduced with some- 
times very valuable economic results. 
Ill. Grortoeican Anp Mintna EpvucaTtion In INDIA. 
The educational facilities existing in India for the training 
of young men in geological erga both for the purely cul- 
eae ee ural benefits of the science as well as for 
na of Geolo- its pursuit asa vocation in life were, until 
gica ucation in 
Schools and Col. 2most yesterday, of the most meagre de- 
leges. scription. If we exclude the projected Dhan- 
bad school of Geology and Mining which is 
under organisation by the Government of India and the Geology 
University, there is only one Geology school in the whole of 
North of India between Calcutta and the North-West Frontier 
and that isin the Kashmir State (Jammu). There are only four 
other places where Geology is taught besides one Mining 
school attached to the Sibpur Engineering College which 
trains students for Sub-Overseer’s work in the Coal mines of 
Bengal, Bihar and Orissa. The education imparted in the for- 
mer set of institutions in Geology, being limited by the scope 
of the degree-examination in Arts and Science; suffers perhaps 
from all those drawbacks which are so often alleged against 
science teaching in our Universities. But even admitting these 
draw-backs ene would wish to see more ade equate provision 
made for geological ape pats in all our Universities, instead 
of their present policy of suffering individual colleges to grapple 
with their own difficulties and do as m mee or as little as they 
want in maintaining their geology teac A great oppor- 
are coming into Gelgecis in different parts of India. In doing 
so they will supply one important desideratum 
in the present needs of the co ener Those 
that have a hand in the management of 
seience education in our schools and colleges ones neglected an 
Neglect of an 
Educational Asset. 
