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prepared by Mr. R. Schlagintweit,* containing as it does 301 names 

 of springs as against only 90 enumerated by Mr. Schlagintweit. 



Five fasciculi of the Pala?ontologia Indica were brought out in 

 1882, comprising a description of the fossil flora of the South Rewa 

 basin by Dr. Feistrnautel, the Siwalik and Narbada Equidas, being 

 Part 3, Vol. II., of the Tertiary Vertebrata Series, by Mr. Lydekker, 

 a fasciculus on the Brachiopoda of the Salt range by Dr. "Waagen, 

 and two fasciculi on the fossil Echinoidea of Sincl by Professor 

 Martin Duncan and Mr. Percy Sladen. 



During the year 1882 Mr. W. T. Blanford was obliged to 

 take sick leave to Europe, and under medical advice he was 

 subsequently compelled to retire from the service. He had spent 

 27 years in the arduous work of the Geological Survey, in which 

 from the very outset he had taken a leading part. He wrote 

 part of the report on the Talchir coal fields, the first paper in 

 the "Memoirs," which have since extended to twenty-four volumes, 

 containing numerous contributions from his pen. Besides his 

 regular geological labours, Mr. Blanford has done a vast deal 

 for the zoology of India, on which he is the highest authority. 

 He was twice deputed on special missions out of India — with the 

 army to Abyssinia, and with the Seistan Boundary Commissioners to 

 Persia: and published special accounts of his researches in both 

 those countries. He was twice (in 1878 and 1879) elected President 

 of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, and so long ago as 1874 he was 

 elected, at his first nomination, a Fellow of the Royal Society. 

 In 1876 Dr. Oldham, on retirement, recommended Mr. Blanford as 

 his successor as Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India ; 

 of this he was deprived only by a small matter of seniority, and in 

 recognition of his high claims Government rewarded him with a 

 special personal remuneration above the pay of his appointment. 

 Personally, as well as professionally, Mr. Blanford's departure was 

 much regretted by his colleagues and the Government. 



Since Mr. Blanford's return to England, he has undertaken the 

 editing of the " Fauna of British India," at the request of the 

 Secretary of State, 5^- volumes of which have already appeared. 

 It is designed to form a complete series of manuals of Indian 

 zoology for schools and for students, and will be the standard work 

 on the subject. 



* Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. XXXIIL, p. 49, 1864. 



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