328 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY IN SOUTHERN INDIA. 



India who takes an active interest in geological work. At 

 home, where there are many amateurs, who are enthusiastic 

 workers afterwards, it seems hardly necessary to observe, that 

 it is different. Many of the greatest geologists were in 

 the beginning pure amateurs. Lyell, Murchison, De la 

 Beche, Godwin- Austen, Yon Buch, D'Arehiac and many 

 others, both English and foreign, began as such, even though 

 they afterwards took to Greology as a profession. 



Amongst amateur geologists South India may be proud of, 

 men of the right sort, Heyne, Buchanan, Benza, Yoysay, 

 Malcolms, Newbold, General Cullen, Colonel Sykes, Robert 

 Cole, Kaye, and Stephen Hislop may be named of those 

 that are gone. Of living South Indian amateurs, Cunliff e, Dr. 

 Carter and Dr. (now Bishop) Caldwell did good and useful 

 work in former years, but of late they have been silent ! 

 Amateurs of the wrong sort, men who look for coal in granitic 

 and metamorphic rocks, and are ever recommending the 

 search for mares' nests, are not wanted ; they are simply 

 hindrances to the cause of science and real advancement. 



This sketch is an attempt to show the actual work done by 

 the Geological Survey in South India ; it is necessarily imper- 

 fect, as owing to the pressure of prior duties, the greater part 

 of it has had to be written in camp without means of 

 reference to many of the publications alluded to, and of many 

 others bearing on Indian geology. The author has, of course, 

 been able to write much more clearly and satisfactorily on 

 points coming within the range of his personal knowledge, but 

 he has striven hard to do full justice to the excellent work of 

 his colleagues, and trusts he has succeeded. 



R. Bruce Foote. 



