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accompanying copy of a despatch, No. 76 of 1857, dated the 3rd 

 June, from the Hon'ble the Court of Directors and enclosure. 



A copy of the despatch has this day been communicated to the 

 Superintendent of the Geological Survey for information, and for 

 such remarks as he may be disposed to offer thereon. 



I have, &c, 

 (Signed) R. B. Chapman, 



Offg. Under-Secg. to the Govt, of India. 



Tublic Department. 

 Our Governor-General of India in Council. 

 Para. 1. — We observe that all the Officers, to whom the Map 

 was communicated, expressed a high 



nJfSA^ 4t 5j. Se P£ (No. senS e f its value, as a record of existing 

 117) 1856, forwarding Bengal _ 7 ° 



special narrative relating to the information as to the Geology of India. 



^ISMiife^uXand Bttt ik »PP"»» to Considered by a Com- 



sent out by the Court for exam- mittee of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 



ination, and remarks by the of- , ■. , « . . . . , 



ficers of Government in India. that from various circumstances the map 



should remain unaltered, as a memorial 

 of the state of our Geological knowledge at the time of its publica- 

 tion, and that any Geological Map of India, intended to shew the 

 results of more recent and more extended investigations, should be 

 commenced de novo, when sufficient data shall have been obtained 

 from the researches now in progress. 



2. We transmitted the correspondence on the subject to the 

 Council of the Geological Society of London, with a request that we 

 might be furnished with the opinion of the Council on the best 

 mode of proceeding, with a view to the framing of an accurate 

 Geological Map of India. 



3. We now forward to you in the packet a copy of the letter 

 in which the views of the Council are stated, from which you will 

 observe that the Council concurs generally in the conclusions of the 

 Committee of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 



4. The various suggestions of the Council seem worthy of adop- 

 tion, and we do not doubt that, in communication with Mr. Oldham, 



