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Memoranda on the Geology of Bundelcund and Jubbulpore. By Dr. J. 



Adam, B. M. S. 

 The following paper has been found amongst some old records, and it 

 has been thought that its contents well entitle it to be rescued from obli- 

 vion. I am happy also to add that the collection to which it refers is now 

 safely placed beyond risk of loss in the Society's cabinets. Being No. IV. 

 of our Geological Catalogues. Qj 



The observations I have now the honour to lay before the Society, 

 were originally intended to accompany a series of geological specimens, 

 for the purpose of illustrating their relative positions and localities, 

 or (according to the technical phraseology of the day) their geognostic 

 and geographic situations, without a knowledge of which, no collection 

 can be of much value. At the time, however, of dispatching these, I was 

 still prosecuting a long march in a remote part of the country, and 

 could not then command leisure sufficient to enable me to throw 

 together the detached memoranda I had committed to paper in the 

 early part of the route. Other circumstances afterwards interfered to 

 prevent my putting this intention into execution, and it is only lately 

 that I have been reminded of it, by finding in the Museum below, the 

 collection to which the notes refer. 



While, with all deference, I solicit the attention of my fellow members 

 to the subject of the following pages, I must at the same time crave 

 their indulgence for the imperfections in the manner of treating it, 

 necessarily arising out of the scantiness of my materials. In moving 

 along, from day to day without intermission, I could only take a very 

 hasty survey of the geological features of the districts through which 

 I passed, and was often thereby precluded from obtaining all the infor- 

 mation desired. I trust also, they will make allowance for the want of 

 interest inherent in such details. The objects of geology present 

 little to allure a general enquirer ; and indeed taken singly, may be said 

 to be the least attractive that can engage the attention of mankind. A 

 bare rock, or a clod of earth offers in itself nothing interesting. But 

 when viewed in combination with surrounding objects, when contem- 

 plated in its relation to these, its local site duly considered — and the 

 influence which it may exert in the mass on the animal and vegetable 

 world ; it then assumes a higher degree of importance, and the study will 



