•PART 1.] 
Annual. Report for 1875 . 
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than once intended to take up the examination of that province. In 1869, arrangements 
were made for doing so, but other and more pressing demands caused this to be laid aside. 
Again in 1871, the same thing occurred, to our great regret. The sections in Sind were 
known to be unusually clear and well exposed ; many of the rocks were richly fossiliferous, 
and while a very large number of species had been already collected and described, it had 
become evident that they had been erroneously referred all to the same series. It was also 
highly probable, if not certain, that we should in Sind find a connecting link between the 
tertiaries of Cutcli and of the Sub-Himalayas. It was therefore with great satisfaction that 
we were able at last to depute M r. B1 a n l’o r d, with the aid of M r. F e <1 d e n, to take up 
Sind in 1874. Before the close of the working season of 1874-75, they had completed a 
fair sketch of the geology of the province, and have again this year resumed their labours 
there, M r. JB la n f o r d also purposing to accomplish a traverse of the desert to Jessulmir and 
Jodhpur, and so probably back again by a different route to Sind. M r. Fe d d en also has 
been able to bring together a very good collection of fossils, some of them very beautifully 
preserved. 
During the summer, Mr. B1 anford was, as already stated, chiefly occupied in working 
out the collections of Dr. Stoliczka from Yarkand preparatory to publication, but 
continued to superintend M r. F e d d e n while he was carefully comparing the numerous 
collections brought from Sind, he himself taking up the Echinoderms, while Mr. Fedden 
confined his labours to the Mollusca. There was no time to investigate the Corals. A 
full sketch of the geological results is given in the present number of the Records of 
the Geological Survey of India, so that it is only necessary to mention briefly, here, 
that Mr. Blanford seems to have established the existence, in addition to the more 
recent and subrecent deposits, of rocks of pliocene, miocene, and eocene age, all of which 
had previously been roughly grouped into old tertiary. While in places there are still lower 
beds, the exact geological age of which is not fixed, but which are, in part at least, probably 
cretaceous. 
Mr. Fedden has worked very earnestly and intelligently, and to Mr. Blanford’s 
satisfaction, and by his careful study of the fossils collected last season, has acquired a 
knowledge of their forms and distribution, which will prove of very essential advantage to 
him during the present season in examining the continuation of the same rocks. 
Mr. Willson has very steadily continued his work in the Bundelcund and Rewah 
country, and has mapped in several sheets of the new topographical survey, during the 
progress of which rvork, some important geological facts have been established. 
Mr. Hacket only returned from leave of absence in Europe in time to take the field 
a little later in the season than usual in Rajpootana. Since then he has been actively 
engaged in Ulwar, and it is hoped that by the close of the working season, he will have 
completed a general geological sketch of that district. 
During the entire season, Mr. Hughes was engaged in finishing up the geological 
maps of the Chanda country, with more especial view to the coal-fields of the Wardah 
valley. A report on these has since been completed, after most unlooked for delay, and is now- 
gone to press. Mr. Hughes, during the present season, has taken up the continuation of 
same geological area to the south, and will, it is hoped, be able to join on his work to that 
of Mr. King, who is extending his examination from the south up the valley of the 
Godavery. 
Mr. Ball completed the examination of the Raigarh and Hingir coal-field, on which 
he had been engaged during the previous season. Of this field, an interesting sketch is 
