elxxiv Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [NS., XIV, 
nominated by the Committee as a representative of the many 
geologists who are assisting commercial enterprise in this 
country, and as such I felt bound to accept nomination ; for the 
Congress must find an important sphere of usefulness in provid- 
ing the commercial scientists of India with an opportunity to 
submit their work for record and discussion ; the lack of such 
opportunity before the Congress was instituted must have 
resulted in the loss to science of much valuable material which 
would have been of permanent interest. 
I shall therefore make no excuse for the subject of my 
address ; oil-prospecting is perhaps the most scientific branch 
of economic geology, and it is the scientific aspect of our work 
in the Punjab, which I wish to put before you. 
History. “i 
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on all the then known oil localities. His results and recomm 
on Lyman’s recommendations; some wells were drill ag 
Chharat, five miles northwest of Fatehjang, and others, po , 
Indcl aoe taee failure has to c : 
ndolex Syndicate imported a Swiss geologist, Pro ae Pr0- 
werk, under the direction of 't e cates oil authority sely 
fessor Zuber of Lemberg. A well was drilled on ® _ ie 
compressed limestone anticline near Golra junction 1.000 
cold season of 1913-14. The well was carried to about 4" 
feet but obtained only a few gallons of oil 
These early efforts, though invariabl y unsuccessful, furnish | 
