304 SIR RODERICK I. MURCHISON’S ADDRESS— ASIA. [May 24, 1858. 
perfectly separated from tire Himalayan drain, but, when far distant 
from all the means and appliances of Europe, actually described 
forms of extinct vertebrata never before brought to light, and 
assigned to them their true places in the animal kingdom. 
In mentioning the name of Falconer, I cannot but regret that a 
large portion of the researches of my valued friend have never been 
laid before the public. Thus, I have ascertained that in 1838 he 
crossed the mountains of Iskardo, and followed up one of the sources 
of the Indus by the valley of the river Braldo to about 36° n. lati- 
tude, on to the glaciers which hang upon the southern face of the 
Muztagh or Karakorum, afterwards explored by Thomson, and 
which there separate the great steppes of Tartary, and the afflu- 
ents of the Oxus, from the drainage of the Indus. Assisting in 
measuring a base line in Cashmir, in company with the late 
Colonel Mackeson, he amassed a large collection of plants from the 
Muztagh range, Western Tibet, and Cashmir, Lower Afghanistan, 
the Salt Kange, and the Punjab, which valuable accumulations 
are at length being examined at Kew, under the direction of Sir 
William Hooker and his son. 
Such labours as these, and many unregistered data, deserve to 
be accurately chronicled among the feats of our exploring country- 
men in India, as well as the labours of Jacquemont, Hiigel, Yigne, 
Winterbottom, and others, which have been noticed in our Journal, 
and are well known to geographical readers. 
But here let me observe, that the writer who would bring together 
the numerous observations of all observers and travellers in various 
parts of India, which are scattered through a variety of periodicals, 
would render immense service to science. Many of these labours, 
as far as they relate to botany, geography, and geology, including 
those of my lamented friend the adventurous Burnes, have been fre- 
quently brought under your notice, whilst those of the distinguished 
botanist Boyle have been feelingly adverted to by my contempo- 
raries in mourning over the recent death of that eminent man. 
In relation to geology, many of you are well aware that much 
light has been successively thrown upon the sister science by the 
labours of a host of observers, besides those I have alluded to, in 
various parts of Hindostan, among whom the names of Sykes, 
Franklin, Malcolmson, Christie, Newbold, Yicary, Fleming, Carter, 
Buist, &c., are honourably enrolled. 
Let me also add, that I entertain a most sanguine hope that, 
with the re-establishment of order, the geological survey of India 
