PART 1.] 
Annual Hejwrt for 1878. 
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exchange. The new fittings in the library were completed within the year, so 
it will now be possible to complete the thorough arrangement of the books. 
Personnel. —l^lr. Hughes was absent on furlough for the whole year. Mr. 
Ball left on two years’ furlough on the 1st of July. Mr. Lydekker was absent 
on priTilege leave from 9th February to 8th of May; Dr. Feistmantel, from 
21st of March to 20th of June; Mr. MaUet, from 2nd July to 19th of October; 
and Mr. King, from 27th July to 21st October. 
I regret to have to record the death, on the 23rd March, of Mr. Walter 
Lindsay Willson, who joined the service in March 1867. He had then been 
for some years senior geologist on the Geological Survey of Ireland; and the 
training he had thei’e received was very marked in the finished neatness of his 
field-maps in India. 
Mr. Carl Ludolf Griesbaeh, p.g.s., was appointed by the Secretary of State 
in the room of Mr. Willson, and joined his post on the 11th November. Mr. 
Griesbach’s acquaintance with the Karoo formation of South Africa will be of 
service in elucidating the supposed correspondence of those strata with the 
GondwSna series of India. He has accordingly been deputed to take up work 
for the present on these rocks in the Sone region, in continuation of Mr. Ball’s 
survey of Palamow. 
Apprentice Kishen Singh was on duty till November with Mr. Theobald, 
who repoi-ts favourably of his intelligence, zeal, and good conduct. Ajjprentice 
Hira Lai was on duty at head-quarters, where he performed useful service in 
the Museum under Mr. Mallet and Dr. Feistmantel. He was sent to the field 
with Mr. Griesbaeh in November, when Kishen Singh was recalled to take up 
the duties in the Museum. 
H. B. MEDLICOTT, 
Calcutta, i Su 2 xlt. of the Geological Survey of India. 
January 1879. J 
List of Societies and other Institutions from which Puhlioations have been received 
in donation or exchange for the Library of the Geological Survey of India 
during the year 1878. 
Amsterdam. —Royal Society of Batavia. 
Belfast. —Natural History and Philosophical Society. 
Berlin. —German Geological Society. 
„ Royal Pnissian Academy of Sciences. 
Bombay. —Bombay Branch Royal Asiatic Society. 
Boston. —American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 
,, Boston Society of Natural History. 
Breslau.— Silesian Society of Natural History. 
Bristol. —^Bristol Museum. 
„ Naturalists’ Society. 
