excviit Proceedings of the Asiatic Soc. of Bengal. |N.S., XVII, 
One other incidental gain willaccrue. Anenlarged force of 
workers in the Geological Survey will bring, the operations of 
that Department into more intimate relations with the public 
and thus tend to spread more correct ideas about the move- 
Government expense. The oppurtunity of educating the peo- 
ple of a region in which work is being done to an appreciation 
of the nature and importance of Geological Surveys should be 
utilised as far as possible.” 
The other of the two conditions relates to the creating of 
Theoretical 
E tion i é F . ‘ 
Gesioay, lic mind should be disabused of the common 
of its liberal education and culture. The object will be best 
realised if two or three of the first grade colleges in each Presi- 
dency were to offer an under-graduate course of geology just as 
they do courses in biology, physics and chemistry with provision 
of means for further post-graduate study and research at one 
or two centres. 
At the same time it is essential that the country should be 
seli-sufficient in the means for a complete 
1 eee course of technical education in all depart- 
shedpur i . P 
Schools, ments of geology, side by side with the 
ovision of academic education. Happily. 
threshold of important developments. The Dhanbad schoc! of 
mining and geology, founded at the very centre of India’s’ 
mining industry, and the foreshadowed institute of metallurgy 
at Sakchi-Jamshedpur, equally fortunate in the site of its 
