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t)ireclor, will depend largely the subsequent suc» 
cess of the survey. He will necessarily be a 
geolog'ist of standing and acknowledged reputa- 
tion, as without iliis it would be inipotsible for 
him to retain the respect or to command the 
obedience of his assistants, but it is equally im- 
portant that he should not be a merely academic 
geologist. Besides his scientific attxinments, he 
should be acquainteJ, and in sympathy with 
the economic applications of his science, and 
must, moreover, have some e.xperience of, and 
known capacity for, adminisi ration. He must, 
in fact, be a man possessing business capacity ; by 
which I do not mean that he must be acquainted 
with the art of bujing and selling, but that he 
must be capable of organising the Department, of 
airanging the programme of work so that time 
will not be wasted, of prescribing a system of 
office routine at once adapted to the requirements 
of his Department and in conformity witli the 
methods of the Ceylon Administration^ and more 
especially of sufficient strength of character to 
enforce a strict adherence to the routine adopted, 
while at the same time of sufficient adaptability 
to readily adopt any modifications or improve- 
ments which prove desirable, without forgetting 
the paramount importance of continuity. 
These qualifications, combined with the experi- 
ence which will render them available and direct 
them in the right channels, are not to be looked 
for in a man whose e.xperience has been purely 
academic or tuitional. They may be looked 
for in an officer of an established Geolo- 
gical Survey, though I would deprecate the 
employment of one who had acquired no experience 
outside the Geological Survey of Great Britain, 
as the methods of that Survey are not such as 
would leail to the development of the cliaracter- 
istics necessary for the conduct of a Geolo^'ical 
Survey in Ceylon. 
ASSISTANTS. 
The appointment of the Director should be the 
first step taken, and his evidence should be con- 
sidered, if not taken, in the selection of the other 
officers appointed. These will necessarily have to 
be appointed by selection, as there is no known 
method of competitive examination which will en- 
sure the selection of suitable candidates. Besides 
their academic qualifications, of which their diplo- 
mas will be sufficient guarantee, they must be 
sound in body, hardy, of an active disposition, and, 
as they will have to carry on their work alone in 
the districts where they will be brought into per- 
sonal contact with natives and residents, it is im- 
portant that they should be gentlemen in habits 
and character. If three of these are appointed, one 
should be graded as a senior and the other two as 
junior assistants, whatever the actual titles selected 
may be, and it is desirable that the senior should 
have had some practical experience of administra- 
tion and office routine, so that he may be able to 
take the place of the Director in case of casualty or 
absence. 
MODE OF APPOINTMENT. 
Candidates for these posts should be adver- 
tised for in the " Times," " Nature," and 
" Geological Magazine." The advertisements 
should state briefly the terms of service offered, 
and specify that candidates must be specially 
qualified in mineralogy, petrology, and inorganic 
chemistry, and in making the final selection from 
among the candidates one at least should be 
selected specially on account of his mineralogi- 
cal and chemical attainments. The appointment 
of a man who \m» devoted his attention purely 
to stratigraphical geology would be practically 
useless. Should the addition of an agronomic 
survey be decide<l on, the advertisement should 
state that one at least of the candidates must 
be qualified to undertake agronomic research and 
in this case the advertisement should be inserted 
in two or three of the leading American Jour- 
nals, as greater attention has been paid to the 
study of soils in that country than in England. 
REMUNERATION. 
As regards remuneration the salary offered to 
the Director should not he less than 1112,000 to 
15,000 per annum, and as he will necessarily be 
it man of some age, a certain nnmher of years' 
service towards pension, tluiiending on the age 
of the selected candidate, should be given to 
him. The senior assi3lant should have from 
H8,000 to 10,000 salary and the juniors from 
K5,000 to 7,000. In the first instance it may be 
desirable to appoint candidates to a salary above 
the minimum of their grade, and the succession 
to the post of Director, though it would ordina- 
rily go in the Department, should not be ex- 
clusively restricted to it. 
TERMS OF SERVICIi. 
At the commencement of the survey, a?i(I in 
my opinion in the case of subsequent appoint- 
ments also, it would not be desirable to 
make jiermanent appointments and, as ap- 
pointments on probation are but a delusive pro- 
tection since, except in the case of most flagrant 
misbehaviour, it is practically impossible to dis- 
charge a man once appointed, I would recommend 
tiiat appointments be made on a five-year agree- 
ment, at the end of wiiich the officer would be 
allowed to go with a bonus of, say, five months' 
pay, or if both parties desired i'o should be re- 
engaged for permanent service, forfeiting the 
bonus, but counting his jjrevious service towards 
leave and jiension. I am convinced that terms 
such as these will prove more attractive than an 
ort'er of permanent service and lifelong expatria- 
tion ; at the same time it is improbable that any 
candidate possessing the zeal and knowledge which 
would render him an useful officer will d'esire to 
take the bonus at the end of five years and ter- 
minate his service. On the other hand, the Go- 
vernment will be in a better position five years 
hence to know exactly what stall' it will require 
and if necessary to reduce it, and will be able to 
get rid, without even the .semblance of hardship 
of members whose services are not satisfactory. 
HORSE ALLOWANCE. 
In addition to his salary each member of the 
Survey should be given an allowance for the keen 
of one hor.se at least. In most part of the Island it 
will be necessary for him to keep at least one 
horse, and in some it would doubtless be to the 
benefit of the public service for him to keep two, 
TRAVELLING ALLOWANCE. 
Aa rejrards travelling allowances the rules 
applied to the Survey Department might be 
adopted, the Director counting, like the Surveyor- 
General, as an inspecting officer, and the other 
members as Superintendents of Survey. The 
rule under which halting allowance is reduced 
after a three days' halt should however be cancel- 
led as tending to bad work. In many case.« 
transport being permanently retained, halting" is 
as expensive as marching, and the object of the 
rule can only be to prevent waste oif time bv 
unnecessarily long halts at places where there is 
no real iteasou for tUeui, In the c^indiKt pf tii^ 
