Chap. I.] 
LITERATURE OF INDIAN DEPOSITS. 
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Coggin Brown, and by myself. Messrs. Winch and Fawcitt have also 
kindly analysed a few specimens of manganese minerals. Further I 
have been supplied with a considerable series of analyses by the various 
manganese mining companies, carried out partly by their own chemists, 
and partly by well-known firms of chemists in England : the chemists 
in India to whose analyses I have had access are Messrs. E. D. ConneU, 
H. H. Dains, C. S. Fawcitt, S. A. Jones, G. M. Prichard, V. G. Speira, 
H. J. Winch, and Dr. Schulten ; whilst the English firms are Messrs. J. 
and H. S. Pattinson of Newcastle-on-Tyne, Pattinson and Stead of 
Middlesborough, W. N. Pearson & Co. of London,- and E. EUey of 
London. The fact that I have not taken any samples for analysis of 
the ores of Southern India — Sandur, Mysore, Goa, and Belgaum — may 
give rise to comment ; the reason is that I was not able to visit 
these parts until this work was practically finished. 
Should any mineralogist or geologist become sufiiciently interested 
in the manganese-ore deposits of this country to 
The visitor to India. • r -n i, 11 • i r 1 • 
pay it a visit, he will be well repaid for his 
trouble. If he wish to see the pick of the deposits, let him visit 
Kandri, Balaghat, Garb ham, Kajlidongri, and Kumsi ; if he wi^h to 
feast his eyes upon apparently endless and unlimited supplies of ore, let 
him visit the Kamataru section of the Sandur Hills ; and if he would 
like an exciting time amongst the minerals and rocks, let him visit 
Kacharwahi, Sitapar, Kajlidongri, Mansar, and Kodur, for from any 
one of these deposits he could coUect in a day material sufiicient to 
provide him with months of research work, whilst he would probably 
find minerals he had not seen before, and possibly varieties and species 
new to science. I am sure the managers of the various companies 
would gladly grant him permission tc visit their properties, provided 
his objects were purely scientific. Should any one be unable to visit 
India and yet desire to work out any of the numerous points I have 
left untouched, and only a small proportion of which I can ever hope 
to deal with myself, I am sure the Director of the Geological Survey 
would gladly let me supply such material as I have. 
In the course of this investigation I have, of course, collected and ex- 
, , , amined all the literature I could find on the 
Literature of Indian i • , <• • t t 
manganese-ore deposits. Subject ot manganese m India. From the list of 
papers given at the end of this work it will be seen 
that the subject has apparently been extensively dealt with before. 
This is not the case; for most of these references are of trivial 
