1921.] The Eighth Indian Science Congress. exevii 
-edition of the Geological Map of India (1"=32 miles scale) 
possessing a greater degree of cartographic detail will also fill 
a standing want. 
IV. Tae Ovritoox, ConpiTIoNS FoR DEVELOPMENT OF 
GEOLOGICAL SCIENCE 1N INDIA. 
After this brief survey of the condition of geological research 
in India one feels justified in entertaining 
the belief that material progress can only be 
expected in the present position of the science 
when two conditions are realised in the near future. One of 
Re-organisation of 
Geological Survey. 
by similar schemes in the future. By such liberal measures 
of-expansion alone can the Survey he enabled to cope with the 
steadily widening field of operations, scientific and technical, 
which nowadays come within the purview of a Government 
Geological Survey. ; 
We can then hope for the institution of some Provincial 
our peseee i excellent ex- 
ion OF Pesoinaud —_ imperial Survey. An é 
more direct bearing on many of the immediate public needs 
ing 
cultural and mining topics by monographs, | bulletins and 
professional papers of a opular description besides the purely 
scientific and technica! official publications. The compiling of 
provincial and in some cases district geology, written In a 
popular manner for the man of industry and for the school and 
condition, at the same time securing the got c 
tion of the people in the field-work of the Survey Officers. 
