PART 1.] 
Animal Report, for 1876 . 
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date of this report. Part 2 is Mi'. Ball’s memoir on the Rajmahai Hills, with numerous 
maps and illustrations, the preparation of which has caused some delay. 
I am happy to be able to announce that good progress has been made in the prepara¬ 
tion of a Manual of the Geology of India. The map was sent in for colour-printing in 
July last, but it is a very heavy piece of work. Several of the plates of fossils are 
already printed, and I hope the work may be ready for issue about the middle of the current 
year. 
The Records for 1876 contain many papers giving abstracts of current work, or 
/discussing important questions relating to it. 
Of the Paueontolooia I.vdica the Jurassic Flora of Kach, with 12 plates, was issued 
in December. A similar treatise on the Flora of the Rajmahai Hills is nearly ready for 
issue. The publication of these figures and descriptions of the plant-remains of the Gond- 
wana system will be of immense service in working out those formations, large areas of 
which still remain to be examined. 
A fasciculus by Mr. Lydekker, with seven plates, on some tertiary vertebrate remains 
will be issued before the date of this report. Of all the work we have in hand none will 
be received with so much interest as information regarding tertiary and post-tertiary 
mammalia. 
I have the pleasure to record that a first class medal was awarded for the exhibits of 
the Geological Survey of India at the Congres International des Sciences Geographiques, 
held at Paris in 1875. 
Library .—The Library of the Geological Survey has received an addition of 992 
volumes or parts of volumes during the year 1876. 
Of this number 536 were purchased and 456 were received from Societies and other 
Institutions in exchange for the publications of the Survey, or as donations. 
Quarterly lists of these additions are published in the Records, and a nominal list 
of Societies and Institutions from which presentations or exchanges have been received is 
appended. 
Museum .—Much has been done during the past year in getting the new museum 
into order. The mineralogical gallery is now fairly provided with cases, and the systematic 
arrangement of the collections has made good progress. Mr. Mallet’s catalogue of the 
minerals will, I hope, be ready for publication this year. In the palaeontological galleries 
no new case-room has been as yet provided, so that large parts of the collections are 
unavailable for show or for study. The cases we have are being used for the Indian speci¬ 
mens. The several series of the general collections have for the present to be packed 
away. The specimens of the Asiatic Society’s collections have been amalgamated with those 
of the Geological Survey in the Indian Museum. 
Calcutta, 
February 1877. 
H. B. MEDLICOTT, 
Sup At. of Geological Survey of India. 
