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and of the Southern Godavari country. These with annual report, and an interesting paper 
by Mr. Theobald, on some speculations as to the antiquity of the Human race in India based 
on Hindu legends, form the volume for the year. 
Of the Pal.eontologia Indica, only one part was actually issued during the year 1874. 
As already stated in previous reports, the concluding parts of the Cretaceous Tauna of Southern 
India had been pressed forward in anticipation of their regular time of issue in order to com¬ 
plete this valuable series before the writer, Dr. Stoliczka, went away. This series was issued in 
full for the year 1873. And in addition, the commencing part of the Cephalopoda of Kacbh 
by Dr. W. Waagen was published in anticipation of the regular time of issue, namely, for 
the first quarter of 1874. The absence with the mission to Yarkand of Dr. Stoliczka, and 
from ill health of Dr. W. Waagen, has prevented further publication during the year. Pro¬ 
gress was, however, made in the preparation of plates and drawings, and since the return of 
Dr. Waagen, the continuation of his detailed descriptions of the Kacbh Cephalopoda has 
gone to press. The part issued contained full description and figures of a very interesting form 
of Rhinoceros ( It. Deccanensis) found by Mr. R. B. Foote in fluviatile deposits in Belgaum. 
Libeaev. —One thousand and eighty-four volumes or parts of volumes have been 
added to our Library during the past twelve months. Of this total more than one-half, or 
five hundred and fifty-seven, have been presented by different Societies and other institutions 
in exchange for the publications of the Geological Survey cf India, or as donations, while 
five hundred and twenty-seven have been purchased. The usual quarterly lists of these have 
been regularly continued in tire Recobds of the Survey, and as customary, a summary of the 
various institutions from which donations or exchanges have been received during the twelve 
months is appended. Wo continue to vender access to this very valuable library as general and 
as easy, as is consistent with the preservation of the books. And in very many cases, we 
find that from the special character of our collections, books have been available here, which 
could not be referred to elsewhere, either in Calcutta or indeed in India. In geological 
matters, quick and ready reference to the published results of other enquirers is perhaps 
more essentially necessary than in most other scientific enquiries, and we continue to look most 
anxiously for the transfer of our collections to premises where they can be rendered more 
easily accessible, and more generally useful, than it is possible to effect in our present 
greatly overcrowded apartments. 
Museum. —During the year all the collection forwarded to the International Exhibition 
at Vienna, which was intended to be returned to this country, was safely received back, and 
was again embodied with the general series. General notices of donations have been given 
in the Records for the year, while we continue to receive from the officers of the Survey itself 
valuable additions constantly. Of the so-called Sivalik fossils, a large and valuable series 
has been procured by Mr. Theobald in his recent examination of the country. The examina¬ 
tion in detail of these is, I regret to say, almost completely impracticable from want of any 
space or room in which to open them out, though individual specimens have been taken up. 
But very important results bearing on the sub-division and age of the different horizons of 
these rocks and of the imbedded fossils will undoubtedly arise, as soon as they can be care¬ 
fully compared and described. From Mr. A. B. Wynne also a good series of similar fossils have 
been obtained, procured from parts of the Rawal Pindi and Jhilam districts in which he has 
been working, and Horn the small range of hills on this side the Jhilam, called the Pabbi 
hills. Some fish remains and other things were procured by Mr. Fedden, and a good series 
of specimens from the upper, secondary, and tertiary rocks of the Lower Godavari basin by 
Mr. King. To Mr. Hughes also the Museum is indebted for a very interesting series of 
fossils from the country adjoining the Milam pass, to the north of Kumaon, which prove 
the continuity of the formations first described as occurring near the Niti pass by Colonel 
R. Straehey: thus extending our knowledge of these formations considerably north-east. 
The fossils represent at least five different formations, Cretaceous, Jurassic, Triassic, 
