124 H. B. M.edVicoii— Geological Ilaj) of India. [Mat, 



Brahmanical edifice, it is arcliitecturally and sculpturally an adaptation 

 from Buddhism, and serves to show how old material forms are preserved 

 amid mental changes and the revolutions of sentiments," (J. A. S. B. XVII, 

 p. 310.) In short, it is a Buddhist fane, converted to Hindu worship.* A 

 drawing of the Amaravati stone is to be found in Foucaux's life of Buddha." 



Mr. H. B. Medlicott exhibited a copy of the new Geological Map 

 of India and said : 



The map which I have the honour to lay before the Society, might 

 perhaps be more fittingly handed round for inspection, than hung up in 

 the general view. It is on the tiny scale of 64 miles to an inch, being in 

 fact only an index-map to a Manual on the Geology of India, embodying 

 the results up to date of the labours of the Geological Survey. This work 

 is now well advanced towards publication ; and it will, however imperfectly, 

 supply a demand that has long pressed upon us. The map has been 

 very neatly printed in colours at the office of the Surveyor General of India, 

 and through the kindness of Captain Riddell, R. E., in charge of the Litho- 

 graphic branch of that office, I have obtained some early impressions ; one 

 has been sent to the Exhibition at Paris and one to Dr. Oldham. This pre- 

 sent is the first occasion on which a copy has been seen in India. On the 

 part of my colleagues of the Geological Survey I now present to our col- 

 leagues of the Asiatic Society of Bengal this latest produce of our combined 

 labours. In this room, before the busts of Stoliczka and of Dr. Oldham, 

 and in the presence of our President, Mr. William Blanford, we might be 

 tempted to forget the share of this work th^t is due to unprofessional 

 explorers. To show how erroneous this would be, how broadly the founda- 

 tions of geology had been laid in India by private hands before^ an official 

 Survey had any existence, I have also placed before the meeting Mr. 

 Greenough's Geological Map, compiled a quarter of a century ago, by a man 

 who had never set foot in the country, from the observations of early ex- 

 plorerSj most of whom were members of this Society. A comparison of the 

 two maps will show a very decided general agreement. It would not be 

 just to push the comparison further. In size and apparent completeness 

 the older map has the advantage, where some considerable blank spaces 

 occur in the recent map, for it was decided that we should put some limit 

 to guess-work. Lines have been put in freely from rapid sketch-surveys, 

 or even from borrowed information ; but we have preferred to leave blank, 

 where the connecting points were too distant and uncertain. As regards 

 details, the minuteness of the map forbids any notice whatever of many points 

 of interest that will be found explained in the Manual, and we have had to 



* The country about Pathari is strewed with remains of undouhtedly Buddhist 

 oria-in. J. W. 



