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ductive of the greatest possible amount of general benefit, 

 and many difficulties arising out of the peculiar circum- 

 stances in which those who might be inclined to avail 

 themselves of its establishment are placed, will require to 

 be overcome before all that it is capable of effecting be 

 actually realised. 



It has been stated to us that the Government of India 

 have given a favourable reception to a suggestion for the 

 formation at Delhi of an establishment similar in principle 

 to the senior department of the Royal Military College at 

 Sandhurst, where commissioned officers have every oppor- 

 tunity of prosecuting those branches of professional study 

 for which such establishments alone furnish the requisite 

 facilities. The beneficial operation of the Sandhurst senior 

 department in furnishing officers well qualified for the 

 scientific duties of the army, or for detached employments 

 requiring scientific attainments, is undisputed, and there can 

 be but little doubt that a similar institution, offering to 

 officers of all branches of the Indian army like facilities 

 for the acquisition of professional and general knowledge 

 would be attended with results equally beneficial, and pro- 

 bably, under existing circumstances, even much more so. 

 Supposing then that such an establishment should ultimately 

 be formed, the Museum of Economic Geology for which the 

 Directors have sent out a collecti on of properly arranged 

 geological and mineralogical specimens, might most advan- 

 tageously be attached to it, and economic geology made 

 one of the studies prosecuted there. By such an arrange- 

 ment, the officers who in rotation joined the institution 

 would have the opportunity of becoming acquainted with 

 the principles of the science, would have their attention 

 directed to the various points connected with the economic 

 geology of British India which yet require investigation, 

 and grateful for the facilities afforded them by Govern- 

 ment, would go forth again prepared to render the infor- 



