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Department, for which a scheme has been sketched 
out, and the advantages of the fully equipped 
Department are so much the greater that iliey 
more than justify the additional cost. 
30th August, 1889. K. D. OLDHAM. 
DRAFT ABSTRACT OF REGULATIONS 
FOR THE CONDUCT OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 
OF CEYLON. 
- [This draft is not intended to hi issued ver- 
bally as it stands, but to indicate the scope of 
a Code of Regulations which should be drawn 
up and issued. They will require to be com- 
pleted in accordance with tlie routine of work 
and record tinally adopted, and will require, in 
addition to the subjects referred to in this draft, 
a definition of the procedure to be adopted in 
entering on private lands. They need not be 
embodied in legislation nor be issued as orders 
of Government ; it will be sufficient for them to 
be issued on the authority and as the orders of 
the Director. If special legislation is necessary 
to establish the Survey and give powers to enter 
on private lands for the purpose of examination, 
Uhe subjects dealt with 1, 2 and 3, might be 
embodied in such legislation.] 
The whole time of officers of the Geological 
Survey being retained for Government work, 
they siiould be prohibited from taking up other 
employment, from examining and reporting on 
lands or mines for private persons, and from 
giving any opinion or report, verbal or written, 
to private persons or commercial companies, ex- 
cept through and by the express permission of the 
Director of the Survey. 
All information gained in the course of ex- 
amination of any mine must be treated as strictly 
confidential ; it should be communicated directly 
to the Directurand put on record when of sufficient 
importance, but must not be divulged to other per- 
sons nor published without the permission of the 
owners of the mine. 
All observations and collections made in the 
course of the survey should be treated as the 
property of Government and handed in to the 
Director. No publication ol results er observations 
made in the course of the survey nor the retention 
of field note-books or specimens should be permitted 
without sanction. 
Officers should keep a diary, an abstract of 
which should be submitted monthly on a form 
prescribed for the purpose. At the end of each 
iield season a full report of the work done should 
be drawn up. Where possible this sbould be in 
the form of a final report for publication or sub- 
mission to Governuient, but where, owing to the 
work being unfinished, this is impossible, a full 
progress report should be prepared and submitted, 
for record and incorporation in the final report. 
On account of the risks of interruption, owing 
to sickness, casualties, or the exigencies of the 
public service, which may necessitate an oHicer 
being temporarily or permanenly diverted from 
the particular task on which he is engaged, every 
member of the Survey should strive to leave the 
work done by him on reeoid in such form as 
shall allow of its being taken up by another 
person with the least possible waste of time. 
Specimens of rocks met with in ihe course of 
the survey should be freely collected. So far 
as possible rock specimens should be trimmed to 
a rectangular shape, about 5 in. by 4 in. and as 
thin as possible, and with each specimen there 
should be one or more chips from which micros- 
cope slides can be prepared without injuring 
the principal specimen. At the end of each field 
season the rock specimens collected should be 
opened out ; and, after rejection of those soeci- 
mens which it is not necessary to preserve, 
should be numbered, entered in the register, and 
stored away for future reference. 
Officers of the Geological Survey should te made 
directly responsible to the Director, and should 
nob correspond with other Departments or officers 
of Government, or private individuals or firm», 
on matters connected with the work of theSurvej-, 
unless and only so far as they are put in com- 
munication with such Departments, officers, or 
other persons by the Director, 
R. D. OLDHAM. 
