1841.] for the North- Western Provinces. 793 



12. It is unnecessary for me to do more than simply to allude 

 Department of Mi- io the department of Mineral Medicines. It has, I 

 neral Medicines. believe, in common with the other branches of the 

 Materia Medica of India, been carefully investigated by a Govern- 

 ment Committee, and it may therefore be concluded, that little diffi- 

 culty will be found in obtaining such information, as may enable us to 

 illustrate, by specimens, the resources of the North- Western Provinces 

 in this useful and interesting department of the Museum. 



13. There are other instances besides those to which specific allusion 

 has now been made, in which geological principles or mineral sub- 

 stances, are made subservient to economical purposes; as an example 

 of the former, the theory and practice of the Artesian method of well- 

 sinking may be mentioned, and of the latter, certain processes in me- 

 tallic manufactures, in soap-making, bleaching, &c. I am unwilling, 

 however, to extend this memorandum by any details relating to these, 

 since with the exception of the first mentioned, they are of minor 

 importance. The method of boring employed in sinking Artesian wells, 

 has already been adverted to in a former paragraph, and measures for 

 its illustration tiierein recommended. I would now, therefore, only 

 recapitutate here the several departments with which the measure has 

 been subdivided, and conclude with a few remarks on certain collateral 

 measures to be adopted, for increasing the utility of the institutions. 

 The departments are — 



1. Mineralogy, 



2. Architecture and Civil Engineering, 



3. Agriculture, 



4. Pottery and Glass Manufactures, 



5. Mineral Pigments and Dyes, 



6. Mineral Springs, 



7- Mineral Medicines, 

 8. Miscellaneous. 



14. In order to furnish specific information to those persons, who 

 may be willing to forward the objects of the Museum, relative to the 

 points to which their attention ought to be directed, it is proposed to 

 circulate extensively tabular forms, or when more appropriate, lists of 

 queries, exhibiting the desiderata in each of the preceding depart- 

 ments. Some progress had been made in the preparation of these, 



