8 liecords of the Geological Survey of India. [vol. xiii. 
lines were determined by the great preceding act of general elevation. {See 
Manual, p. 634.^ 
Mr. Lydekker observes that the extensive exhibition of irruptive rocks con¬ 
nected with the tertiary series is not continuous throughout, and that the 
masses to the east are different in composition, or at least in texture, from those 
at the north-western end of the basin. This latter fact may be due to meta¬ 
morphism accompanying the gi-eater compression in this position, and which has 
equally affected the tertiary deposits. 
Mr. Griesbach has accomplished a very successful season’s work in the higher 
jjj. Himalaya of Kumaun and Hnndes. Compared to Ladak 
3Ir. arieslaoh. this is a happy hunting gi'ound for the geologist, the rocks 
being well stocked with fossils, of which a good series has been brought in. 
Despite the distress of climate and great elevations, Mr. Griesbach has succeeded 
in mapping the snowy range between the Niti and Milam passes. He is still en¬ 
gaged in working up his materials, and the result cannot fail to be most interesting. 
Mr. Blanford was engaged at office during the whole field season, at first for 
the completion of the Manual and afterwards to prepare his memoir on Western 
Sind, which had been postponed for some time. 
Nothing special occurred to take me from Calcutta, and unless for some ur¬ 
gent duty of short duration, my absence would not be compatible with the 
steady progress of our work. 
Fiihlications.—lslv. Wynne’s geology of the Salt-range was at last issued 
earlv in the year, having lain some fourteen months in type waiting for the 
colour-printing of the map. It forms itself Vol. XIV of the Memoirs. Mr. 
Foote’s memoir (Vol. XVI, pt. I.) on the geology of the eastern coast from 
latitude 15° to the Kistna was issued in August. Mr. Blanford’s geology of 
Western Sind was issued in December, forming Vol. XVII, pt. I, of the Memoirs. 
When the work admits of it, memoirs on adjoining areas, or relating to the same 
geological region, are brought into the same volume; thus, Vol. XV will be 
completed by Mr. Griesbach’s memoir on the Ramkola coal-fields, now in the 
press: Vol. XVI will include Mr. King’s memoh’s on the east coast in Nel- 
lore and in the Godavari district, now preparing for publication; and Vol. 
XVII will be completed by Mr. Wynne’s geology of the Salt-range trans-Indus, 
now at press. 
The Records for 1879 contains 22 papers of various interest, with II maps 
and plates. Two of the articles are by contributors not attached to the Survey : 
that on Hangrang and Spiti by Colonel McMahon, and that on the old mines 
at Joga on the Narbada by Mr. G. T. Nicholls of the Civil Service. 
Four parts of the Paleeontologia Indica were issued during 1879 : one by 
Dr. Feistmantel on the Flora of the Gondwana outliers on the Madi'as Coast 
(16 plates), and another by the same author on the Flora of the Talehir-Karhar- 
bari beds (27 plates) ; one by Mr. Lydekker on the Reptiha and Batrachia of the 
Indian pretertiary formations (6 jjlates) ; and the first part of the Salt-range 
fossils by Dr. Waagen (G plates). An interruption was occasioned in the publica¬ 
tion of Dr. Waagen’s work by his receiving in the middle of the year the consider¬ 
able collection of fossils made in the preceding field-season by Mr. Wynne in 
