will form a portion of the general collections of Natural History to be connected 

 with that rtablishment. 



In the Museum now in progress of formation, every thing tending to illustrate 

 the Geology of this Country, in its widest sense, will find a place. The history of 

 the Science, the progress of its investigations, the nature of its classifications, the 

 phenomena with which it is concerned, the laws of those phenomena, will all be 

 illustrated. The grand series of organisms, the remains of which occur in such 

 abundance in various deposits, will be exhibited, and the whole Natural History 

 of rocks traced cut so far as collections enable this to be done. By the aid of 

 Drawings, such objects as cannot be procured will be made familiar to the Student, 

 and by the use of Maps, th6 structure of countries, which it would be impossible 

 for many to visit, will be made known. 



While thus endeavouring to render the Student acquainted with the principles 

 of the Science, the practical applications of these principles will, at the same time, 

 be fully exhibited. Mining processes, mining products, and the principal metal- 

 lurgical operations, will also be included, and the comparative excellence of each, 

 so far as possible, made known. The building materials of the Country, and their 

 applications, the localities where used, the durability, the facility of working, the 

 strength, &c , of the stone9, will all be examined into. The importance of Mi- 

 neral Waters must not be overlooked, and the value of these will be determined 

 by careful investigations. 



Further, in a country so essentially agricultural as India, the character of the 

 soils and sub-soils, their peculiar adaptation to peculiar crops, their composition, 

 and, in dependence upon this, the easiest means of renewing or increasing their 

 fertility ; all these are important questions which at once connect themselves with 

 the researches of the Geologist, inasmuch as the natural powers of any soil depend 

 essentially on the source from which that soil has been derived, and therefore on 

 the geological structure of the district. 



To enable such enquiries to be effectively carried out, a small Laboratory is at- 

 tached to the Museum, where such analyses and investigations as may be requisite 

 will be carried on ; and it is hoped that most valuable, because accurate and de- 

 tailed, information may thus be acquired. 



Moreover, careful summaries of all existing knowledge on the geological struc 

 ture of the Country will be compiled and arranged, so as to facilitate referenc 

 Much has been done in investigating the geological structure of this Country, and 

 very valuable papers have been given to the public, descriptive of various parts 

 of India. But these facts are scattered through various periodicals, are often < v 

 incidently noticed in travels, or can be found only in manuscript among the f " 

 cords of Public Offices. Many of these are with difficulty intelligible, from the 

 writers frequently calling similar objects by different names, ox vice versa. It is 

 therefore, necessary to obtain the key to the terms used before these can be com- 

 pared. It will be an object with the Officers of the Geological Survey to remove 

 this difficulty, and to bring into an accessible form every thing which has be^n 

 published bearing on the geological structure, the mineral wealth, or the manuf % 

 turing industry (so far as this is concerned with mineral products) of this Et ;- 

 pire. 



