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given by Mr. Ball, and published in the Records. During the present working season, 
Mr. Ball has been engaged in a revision of the Talchir coal-field, and in an examination of 
the Atgurh sandstones. 
Dr. Feistmantel, who joined the Survey at the commencement of the year, has been 
most earnest and zealous in working out the fossil plants of the several groups of rocks in 
India, and has already accumulated much valuable matter. He has commenced the prepara¬ 
tion of a history of the fossil flora of Kachh, which, taken in connection with the already pub¬ 
lished descriptions of some of the fossils from the associated beds, will prove of great inter¬ 
est and value. There is little doubt that the fuller and more careful investigation of the 
several floras from the successive groups of rocks will throw much light on the relation 
of the different members of what it has become a fashion to style the plant-bearing 
series. 
In Madras Presidency, Mr. King completed the examination of the Kajahmundry 
country before leaving the field. I regret to have to report that exposure to the first burst of 
the monsoon before reaching station resulted in a very severe attack of inflammation of the 
eyes, which for some time assumed a very serious form. Fortunately this was conquered, and 
Mr. King’s sight saved, although his recovery was tedious. Taking the field again at the 
commencement of the season he has visited the several fields near the lower valley of the 
Godavery, and closed up that part of the area, and 1ms since proceeded northwards along the 
Godavery valley, with a view to joining Mr. Hughes, who has been carrying out the examin¬ 
ation of the same valley proceeding southwards. 
Mr. Poote succeeded in mapping in a good area of the country along the coast 
in the Nellore and Ongole country, and was fortuuate also in finding some very beautifully 
preserved and interesting fossils of .Rajmahal age. And in the present season he continues 
the same work northwards, with a view to join on to the Godavery and Rajakmundry areas. 
During the recess, Mr. Foote completed a valuable report on the Southern Mahratta Country, 
which is now in hands preparatory to going to press. 
Publications .—Of the Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, Vol. XI, 
Pt. 2, containing a detailed description of the salt-producing country in the Ivoliat district, 
Trans-Indus, was issued. The illustrations required for this part occupied some time, and 
the absence in Europe of the writer, Mr. Wynne, also involved some delay in reference in a 
few points. 
Of the Records of the Survey, the regular quarterly issue was punctually maintained, 
and the volume for the year will bo found to contain several very valuable papers on the 
o-eoloo-ical structure of various parts of India. “ The paper on the Attain Artush, from a 
geological point of view,” by the late Dr. F. Stoliczka, completed the series of short papers 
bearing on his trip to Yarkand, which he had left ready for publication. Among other 
descriptive papers, we have a note on the geology of Nepal by M r. M edlicott, on the Ivha- 
reean Hills in the Punjab by Mr. Wynne, a sketch of the geology of Scindia’s territories 
by Mr. Medlicott, and a full sketch of the Shapur coal-fields, with notices on the explora¬ 
tions in progress in the Nerbada valley for coal: also an account of the Raigarh and Hingir 
coal-field by Mr. Ball, while the practical bearings of geological research are illustrated by 
Mr. W. Blanford’s paper on the water-bearing strata of Surat, Mr. Hughes and Mr. 
Medlicott on fire bricks, Mr. Mallet on coal near Moflong, Ac. 
Of the PaljEONTOLogia Indica, the publication of the Jurassic Cephalopoda from 
Kachh has been continued. The whole series is now completed and issued, although the 
