xxvi Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. £March, 1844. 



the Honorable the Court of Directors, No. 17 of 1843, dated the 1st November, to- 

 gether with Captain Herbert's Geological Map of the Mountain Provinces between 

 the Sutlej and Kalee therein alluded to. 



I am, Sir, 

 Your obedient servant, 



T. R. Davidson, 

 Council Chamber, the 27th Jan. 1844. Offg. Secy, to the Govt, of India. 



Extract from a Despatch from the Hon'ble the Court of Directors in the Public 

 Department, dated the \st November, 1842. No. 17. 



Answer to Letter, dated 20th July, No. 32 of 1842. 



2. We enclose as a number in the packet, a copy of Captain Herbert's Geolo- 

 gical Map of the Mountain Provinces between the Sut- 

 c^SS^uSSSSf.%^. '"J •"* ™ee; °<" I»ve not thought it necessary to 

 gical Map, and ] 2 colored Views incur the expense of procuring copies of the Views, 

 of the Himalayan for the use of „ 



the Asiatic Society. which are large colored drawings of Scenery, and oi 



no value in a scientific point of view. 

 (True Extract,) 



T. R. Davidson, 

 Offg. Secy, to the Govt, of India. 



I have now the gratification of exhibiting the Geological Map to which it refers, 

 and of congratulating the Society upon its having been able, through the kind atten- 

 tion of Government and the Honorable the Court of Directors, to render to the me- 

 mory of one of their most zealous Members, and most earnest and laborious 

 Indian men of science, Captain Herbert, full, though tardy justice; and in doing this 

 also, it may claim at the same time to have rendered a most essential service to 

 the cause of geological science, in giving to the world a connected Geological 

 Map of this part of our great mountain barrier ; for however deficient it necessarily 

 is in details, and however much there may remain to be filled up, we have 

 still here such a leading sketch of its main features by a scientific explorer, as 

 will be invaluable to future observers ; and I cannot better illustrate this opinion, than 

 by requesting the attention of the Meeting to our two Geological Maps of England. The 

 one but a little further improved than that of William Smith, the father of English 

 Geology, after twenty years of assiduous and unassisted labour ; and the other, Mr. 

 Greenough's, the fruits of the combined knowledge and labours of all the geologists of 

 England in twenty years more. It will be seen from these two examples how valua- 

 ble, and in fact how indispensable, these preliminary sketches, like the first chalk or 

 charcoal lines of the painter, are to the production of a finished work ; and finally, we 

 shall now, it is to be hoped, completely rescue Captain Herbert's labours from 

 oblivion, (and even from misrepresentation,) and render justice to the liberality of 

 the Government of India of that period in undertaking this great and most useful 

 work. 



Museum of Economic Geology. — We have received in this department, but without 

 any letter, three sets of two Maps each, of the country through which the proposed 



