1921.) The Eighth Indian Science Congress. excix 
location, and of like scope and equipment, will make ample 
provision forthe needs of the country in this respect for the- 
present and for several years tocome. These two institutes may 
be relied upon to provide adequately trained young men for the 
vocation of surveying, prospecting, mining, metallurgy and 
other related occupations such as India has already begun to 
deman 
Gentlemen, 1 do not feel warranted in ne upon your 
courtesy further 
The yeti of reo and porcelain in India.—By 
- A. Knreut HaLLowEs. 
This paper ars ves a isecteuiss of the most medern process for the- 
manufactire of china and Ls orcelain from washed Indian china clay. 
n 
‘with th Ww \ 
quartz to produce the kind of china or porcelain required, and is then 
i i 
7 
a membrane pump to supply ‘‘ the filter-press””’, being afterwards trans- 
ered to the ‘‘ annie mill” which produces clay of ist plasticity. 
ter ad oe h 
e geben: after air-drying, are then plac sete saggars,” and 
heated by waste Ene’ in the biscuit chamber of a pods kiln to a tem- 
perature varying f °-800°C. : 
When quite oad Y tiny are dipped by hand into a trough of glaze 
ee Saga of a finely powdered mixture of kaolin, orthoclase, limestone, 
and 
Binal ally. the* venee articles are agein placed in fire clay ‘* on gee . 
and fired for twenty four hours in a d down-draft Dresden kiln, at a 
temperature of 1350°-1400°C. They af kept in this . saaiona 
twenty-four hours at a slowly decreasing temperature for ann 
As great caro is exercised in this ape cess it is found that he Teli: 
ages do not amount to more ‘irik 5 per 
On a new fossil unionid from me intertrappean beds of 
Peninsular India.—B PRASHAD. 
In this paper the author describes a new song ih Unionid from the 
collections of the Geological Survey of India. The fossil h oboe 
been identified as Cyrenid and labelled Pisidium pee islop ; 
a 
ing to be genus Lamellidens, Simpson a full description of his species, 
whey is eal ed L. vredenburgi, is given, a nd its peda ips with the 
other living species of the genus is disc te 
Unionidae from the Miocene of Burma.—By E. VREDEN- 
and B. PraSHAD. : - 
wn from India were the imper- 
“deoatt os piper ari tee Siwaliks recorded by Torhes, 
Uppermost Cretaceous in 
indi the d those froma a i Beds of Baluchistan. 
It is, therefore, of special interest to be able to a" 
well preserved a fossils from the Uppermost Miocene 
