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Geological conditions! of India during your tenure of office is most creditable to your 

 self, and that it i:; undoubtedly leading to the development of the mineral resources 

 of the empire, as well as the material extension of scientific knowledge.'' 



On Dr. King taking over the directorship in April 1887 from 

 Mr. Medlicott, be found the staff of the Survey still below the 

 normal number. The distribution over the vast area of the Indian 

 Empire was as follows : — 



Mr. Foote on special deputation to the Mysore Government. 



Mr. Mallet, Museum and Laboratory. 



Mr. Hughes, special deputation with the Deccan Company, 

 Hyderabad. 



Mr. Fedden, Vizagapatam. 



Mr. Hacket, Raj pu tana. 



Mr. Griesbach, just returned from the Afghan Boundary 

 Commission. 



Mr. Oldham, Salt range. 



Mr. Bose, Chattisgarh. 



Mr. La Touche, Assam. 



Mr. Middlemiss, Himalayas. 



Mr. Jones, Upper Burma. 



Two of the vacancies were subsequently filled up by the appoint- 

 ment of Dr. Fritz Noetling (Berlin University) as Palaeontologist, 

 and of Mr. Philip Lake (Cantab.) as assistant superintendent; on 

 the other band, Mr. Hughes's engagement with the Deccan Company 

 continued until May 1888, and Mr. Griesbach was deputed for two 

 yeai'S to Afghanistan as geologist to the Amir of that country. 

 Mr. La Touche was also selected for work under the Kashmir 

 Government. These various calls from Native administrations were 

 of course in the nature of distinction ; nevertheless, they formed an 

 interruption to the regular work of the Survey. Mr. Foote's study 

 of the auriferous veins of Mysore resulted in a lengthy and valuable 

 report, founded on a rapid tour through the province. Mr. Fedden, 

 who was transferred to the Madras Presidency at the end of 188C, 

 took up work in tbe Vizagapatam district, with the endeavour to 

 till in the large unsurveyed gap between the Godavari and the 

 Ganjam districts in the Northern Circar, and ho had been going on 

 steadily with his work when he suddenly died at Vizagapatam on 

 the 27th December 1887. He was one of the oldest and most valued 

 members of tbe Department, and had only just attained the long 

 looked-for promotion to the 1st grade. 



