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\otice of the Scientific labors of [No. 34, 



character, and bear the signatures of Sedgwick and Murchison, of 

 Brongniart, of Brochant de Yilliers, and of Jameson. 



Mr. TurnbuU Christie left England, on his return to India, about the 

 beginning of 1831, travelling through France and Italy, thence em- 

 barking for Alexandria. He remained some time in Egypt, and after 

 visiting Syria and Mount Sinai proceeded down the Red Sea to Bom- 

 bay, which place he reached in April, 1832. Before leaving Eng- 

 land he had provided himself with a complete set of instruments for 

 ascertaining the nature of the meteorological and hydrographical 

 phenomena that might present themselves to his attention, and was 

 accompanied by a painter to depict objects of zoology, comparative 

 anatomj', botany, kc. kc. 



Christie, a Medical Officer in the service of the Honorable East In- 

 dia Company, who is about to return to the East, is extremely desirous 

 of obtaining the permission of the Court of Directors, to employ himself 

 exclusively in elucidating the geology of the Company's possessions; and 

 we have no hesitation in stating that he is well qualified to enter up- 

 on such a task. Since his arrival in Europe he has travelled through 

 France and Italy, where he has worked with various eminent Geologists — 

 Yon Euch, de Beaumont, S:c. — and he is now sedulously occup^^ing his 

 time in acquiring an intimate acquaintance with the English strata ; it 

 being his intention, during the ensuing summer, to revisit all our coal 

 mines, and to examine in detail the coast sections from the Isle of Wight 

 to Cornwall. 



It would be superfluous on our part to point out the manifold advan- 

 tages which might accrue to the Company, from the employment of such 

 a man of science in the unexplored field of Hindostan : the mineral riches 

 of which (especially certain great coal basins) still remain to be developed. 



Yv^e cannot but hope that a Government which fosters and encourages, 

 with so much liberality, the sciences of Botany and Zoology, will equally 

 aid the Geologist in his endeavours to unveil the nujnerical* structure of 

 the vast empire which it rules over. 



Requesting you therefore to state the case to your brother the Chair- 

 man, we subscribe ourselves. 



Your's very sincerely, 

 (Signed) A. Sedgwick, Fresident. 



R. Murchison, Secretary. 



College Museum, Edinburgh, April 6tk, 1830. 

 This certifies that Dr. Alexander Turnbull Christie, before leaving 

 Europe for India in 1822, studied in this University the following 

 branches of Natural History, viz.. Geology, Mineralogy, Meteorology, 

 Hydrography, Botany and Zoology. That, during his residence in In- 

 dia, he continued to cultivate Natural History with great zeal, and much 

 success. That since his return to Britain, with the view of enabling him 

 to carry on his investigations in India, on his return to that country, in 



*Sic orig. 



