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exevi Proceedings of the Asiatic Soc. of Bengal. [N.S., XVII, 
Museums. Think for example of the ones at...... and at 
oi Mike alte ; it is the result of letting the peons “ Spring-clean”’ 
the collections and sprinkle the Jabels back afterwards. I have 
seen lovely Black trap labelled coal, and crystalline rocks labelled 
with place-names recalling alluvial sand. After this has hap- 
pened a collection is no better than road-metal.’’ Not only are 
the collections indifferent, but there are no charts or maps 
depicting the chief geological features of the province or of its— 
principal mineral occurrences. Excellent material of this des- 
cription is furnished by the Memoirs and Records of the Geo- 
logical Survey or can be easily compiled from them. 
na country where Museums are so few and geological 
attention and scientific care devoted to the assembling and 
upkeep of sections relating to Natural History. 
While dealing with the subject of geological education 
f T venture to make one or two suggestions 
and Wiese” have a bearing on it. All that have to do 
years. 
These are non-procurable on sale or on loan and amongst them 
there are several valuable monographs and district contributions 
more and more widely felt by an increasing number of students, 
teachers, industrialists and the intelligent citizen generally. 
Another desideratum from the same point of view, which 
I submit for the consideration of the authorities, is the com- 
pilation of complete provincial, and in some cases even district 
Geologies, the compilation being brought up to date by incor- 
porating all the later work, mineral statistics, etc., and provid 
with large scale-maps depicting geological as well as economical 
features of the district or province in question. 
Among the parts of India which specially call for such 
; revised publications (or reprints as the case 
i mcoe . might be) should be mentioned : Cutch. Sind, 
Assam, Hazara, Gujarat, Nagpore, Singh- 
