14 lieconU of the (icolofcal Snrveij of Indin. XI, 
Volume XIV, containing Mr. Wynne’s description of the Salt Range, with 
numerous plates and illustrations, was fully printed off before the end of the year, 
but there will be unavoidable delay in its issue on account of the map, which 
presents an intricate piece of colour-printing, and the lithographic branch of the 
Surveyor General’s Office has been so much engaged upon the geological map of 
India that the printing of the Salt Range map has been inevitably postponed. 
I am glad to announce that all the fossil collections from the Salt Range^ 
below the nummulitic horizon, have been confided for description to Dr. Waagen, 
who studied the formations on the ground and added largely to the collections. 
As the Survey has been so unfortunate as to lose Dr. Waagen’s permanent 
services, through his inability to endure the Indian climate, we are most fortunate 
to have secured his co-operation in this very important work, for which he is so 
eminently qualified. 
Of the Palsiostologia Indica three fasciculi were issued before the close of 
1877: two (Ser. II, 2 and 3) bj^ Dr. Feistmantel on the flora of the Rajmahal 
group in the Rajmahal Hills, and near Golapili, in continuation of the work by 
Dr. Oldham and Professor Morris on the same group of fossils, published in 1862. 
The third is by Mr. Lydekker, forming the second number of Series X, devoted 
to the descrijition of the Tertiary Mammalia. 
Through the kind serHces of Dr. Oldham in England, we have obtained de¬ 
scriptions by Sir Philip Egerton and Professor Miall of some interesting vertebrate 
fossils from the Gondwana deposits of Kota-Maleri. The printed sheets and 
plates of this work were received in Calcutta before the close of the yeai’ and have 
since been issued, with a supplementary note by Mr. Blanford on the stratigi’aphy 
and homotaxis of these deposits. 
Two other fascieuU of the Palieontologia were finally passed for press before 
the close of the year and are now ready for issue: one (Ser. XI, 2) by Dr. 
Feistmantel on the Flora of the Jabalpur group; and one (Ser. X, 3) by Mr. 
Lydekker on some Siwalik Mammalia. 
Lih7-ary .—During the year 1877 the library of the Geological Survey has 
received an addition of 1,355 volumes; 784 by purchase and 571 by presentation 
or in exchange. 
For the last three months the library-room has been in gi’oat disorder during 
the construction of a gallery and additional cases. As soon as this work is com¬ 
pleted and the books arranged, the whole will bo carefully checked and compared 
with the manuscript catalogue, which will then be printed. 
Museum. Much progress has been made in biinging the Museum into order. 
In December tbe new wall-cases in tlic main palaeontological gallery were finished ; 
and they are now completely filled with our standard series of fo.s.sils in biological 
succession, though of course at present only in rough generic order. The final 
arrangement and labelling of the specimens on the shelves will be a tedious labour. 
In the gallery tor lertiai’y Mammalia the wall-cases were also finished in December. 
Mr. Lydekker has these collections so well in hand that the whole are now its 
excellent approximate order with suitable labels. 
