EXTRA NUMBER. 



[Issued gratis to Members of the Society, and to Subscribers to the Journal.] 



JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



Report of the Mineralogical Survey of the Himmalayu Mountains lying 

 between the Rivers Sutlej and Kalee. Illustrated by a Geological Map* 

 By Captain J. D. Herbert, Superintendent. 



To some of our Indian, and to many of our European readers, it may be 

 necessary to explain the circumstances which gave rise to the following 

 report, and those under which it has so long remained unpublished. 



Captain Herbert of the Bengal Infantry, Deputy Surveyor General of Ben- 

 gal, and Superintendent of Kemaon Surveys, was appointed by the Govern- 

 ment of India, then under the Marquis of Hastings, to undertake a Minera- 

 logical Survey of that part of the Himalya Mountains, which form the Bri- 

 tish Frontier to the North- West ; but it would appear that this was not 

 fully executed, though much was done ; and the elements of much more 

 which might have been accomplished at a small expence were already col- 

 lected. 



Captain Herbert, after editing for three years the valuable Gleanings in 

 Science, the parent of our Journal, was appointed Astronomer to the King of 

 Oude, whither he proceeded, but enjoyed for a very short time his post, 

 dying of an apoplectic attack in 1833. 



When our present Curator of the Museum of Economic Geology, Mr. 

 Piddington, assumed temporary charge of the Museum, he found 12 cases fil- 

 led with what were well known by the Assistants to be " Captain Herbert's 

 specimens," but beyond this fact, not a line of Catalogue, Journal, or Note 

 relating to the specimens could be discovered ; It became then an object of 

 great importance to the Society, and to Science, to trace out, if possible, any 

 records which could throw light upon this valuable collection, and after a per- 

 severing search of eighteen months by the Secretary and himself, their labour 

 was rewarded, first by the discovery of five volumes of Captain Herbert's 

 Notes, which had been carried into Kemaon ! but fortunately left there in 

 the care of a zealous friend to Science, and a valuable associate of the So- 



* See Introductory Remarks. 



