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Geological Survey it will not infrequently be 
necessary to stay more tlian tluee days at a place 
to work it out thoroughly, and in such case a 
hard and fast rule would be a strong inducement 
to leave woi k unfinished. Tiie rule niifijlil, how- 
ever, be allowed to stand, provided that iiower be 
given to tlie Director toceitify for the whole or 
a portion of the halting allowance where he is 
satisfied that the extended halt was in the inter- 
ests of the public service and that, on account of 
the maintenance of permanent transport or other 
reason, the officer was put to such special exjtense 
as would justify the certificate. The limit of time 
beyond which such certificate is necessary ,woula 
with advantage be extended to seven days. 
CONTROL OF EXPENDITURE. 
In this connection I may urge that the con- 
trol of the expenditure on travelling as also on 
contingencies should be vested solely in the Direc- 
tor of the Survey. The accounts will of course 
be submitted to" the usual audit, but this should 
be conlined to matteis of account, and the Direc- 
tor having, by his countersignature to the bill, 
certihed th.it it was for the benelic of the public 
service that the journey should be performed in 
the manner and by the route employpd no question 
of time occupied or route followed should be raised 
by the Accounts Department. So, too, the Direc- 
tor should be the judge of whether contingent ex- 
penditure on coolies for jungle clearing or exca- 
vation, or other charges incurred by officers in 
the lield, was necessary and incurred in the public 
service or not. An officer fit to be entrusted 
with the chsrge of the Survey may be trusted to 
attend to the interests of Government in tlie.se 
matters, and t;he jiower of control advocated will 
save him from much unneces-sary correspondence 
of a petty and particularly irritating nature, and 
will prevent the waste of time which he could 
otherwise emjjloy in a manner which would give 
scope to his special qualifications. 
A Department; a supeiior stafi oiganised as 
suggested above would however be useless, if not 
properly equipped and provided with a subordi- 
nate and menial establishment. The equipment 
required consists of a laboratory, a library, and 
a suitable building for their accommodation and 
that of the offiiers, office staff and records of the 
Department. 
LABORATORY. 
For the laboratory with a fioor space of some 
1,200 square feet should be provided, if solely 
devoted to geological work, and about half as 
much again if agronomic work be added. 
This space would be divided into five rooms ; 
the laboratory proper, or principal room, attached to 
which there should be a room for the assistant in 
charge of the laboratory, a balance room, a rough 
preparation and rock-slicing room, and a dark room 
for photographic work. The laboratory would 
have to be fitted with sinks, draught cupboard, 
workbenches, etc., and a Mansfield gas installation 
with a producer of (say) 500 cubic feet capacity 
should be provided for. It should be equipped 
with the )iecessary microscopes, balances, and 
other instruments and reagents, which would 
have- to be procured from home, and a sufficient 
grant for its maintenance. 
LIBRARY. 
Besides a laboratory a working library 
woulit have to be provided and an annual 
grant inovided for its maintenance as it would 
be of very small utility unless kept up to date. 
ACCOMMODATION REQUIRED. 
Sooner or later a special and pro)jer!y designed 
buil'iing should be built for the accommodation 
of the Department, and, though at first it would 
doubtless be housed in a hired building adapted 
to the puipose, tlie r.joner a ,'?j)ecial building is 
constructed Ibe betier. It is consequently desir- 
able to indicate approximately the floor space 
necessary : — 
Laboratory : Square Square 
feet. feet. 
Principal room .. .. 750 
Assistant's room . . . , 250 
Balance room . . . . 200 
Rough preparation room . . 300 
Photo dark room 200 
1,700 
Library ... — 700 
Director's — 40O 
Working rooms, preferably sepa- 
rate, say b at 300 — 900 
Clerical and record office ... — 300 
Godown — 400 
Total ... — 4,400 
This estimate allows for the permanent needs of 
the Department. In the early days, while in 
hired premises, less will be necessary, and a ma- 
terial reduction can be made if agronomic work is 
not combined with geological. If the headquar- 
ters are placed at Nuwara Eliya, as I recommend, 
instead of Kandy, the floor space could be reduced 
by about one-third, and if it is decided to place 
them at Kandy and add a Museum, an additional 
2,000 square ft. ot floor space should be provided for, 
CLERICAL AND MENIAL STAFF. 
The clerical and menial staff required would not 
be large. A head clerk, who would also act as 
librarian would be required , he should be ac- 
quainted with official routine and, as with so small 
a superior stafi', it may not be possible to arrange 
that one of them shall always be at headquarters, 
he should be fit to be trusted with the routine of 
the office, the draftintr of routine letters, and the 
forwaiding of such as require the personal atten- 
tion of the Director. I understand thatsucli a man 
could be got forasalary of from K1,000 toRl,500. 
An additional clerk on say R400, a bookbinder, 
oflice servants, and a couple of peons would com- 
plete the office establisliment required. 
For the laboratory ic would be well to engas'e an 
assistant with some knowledge of chemistry, who 
would act as storekeeper and could be placed in 
charge of some of the simpler operations and 
analyses in the laboratory. I do not know 
whether it would be possible to obtain this assist- 
ant locally, but if not, one could be engaged in 
Madras or Calcutta. Ho should be paid about 
R600 to begin with, rising to not less than 2,000 
as he becomes more proficient in the work. Two 
laboratory servants would be required for cleaning 
apparatus and preparing rock sections. 
For the officers in the field a certain establish* 
ment of peons would be required. They might 
be provided for by an allowance paid to the officers 
but would preferably be entertained and paid for 
by the Survey. Four men permanently employed 
would, I think, be sufficient, the additional assis- 
tance required being entertained temporarily as, 
and to the extent, required. 
IV.— COST. 
I come now to the consideration of the cost, 
which may be considered under the heads of initial 
and recurrent expenditure. In the initial expeqdi» 
