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known to be found in some thin papery shales near Bombay. To these Professor Owen had 
in 1847 given the name of Sana pusilla. More carefu 1 investigation, and more perfect 
specimens, show that these strange little frogs belonged to the existing genus Oxyglossus. 
Mr. Blanford’s report includes all the country lying between the parts already described 
by Mr. J. G. Medlicott (see Yol. II, Memoirs Geol. Survey of India) and the Gulf 
of Cambay, and thus completes a geological section right across the peninsula to the neighbour¬ 
hood of Bombay. 
This part completes Volume VI of the Memoies of the Geological Survey of India. 
Of the figures and descriptions of Indian fossils, included in the Palfeontologia Indica, 
the second half of the description of the Cretaceous Gastropoda was issued in October. This 
contained four fasciculi, and being ready at that time, I was enabled to issue it in advance, 
so as to carry the publication up to October of the present year. The danger of loss, the 
facility of destruction or injury, and the delay in transmission, of the smaller fasciculi, render it 
preferable to issue the whole series due for a year at once, if this be ready. 
The description of the Gastropoda, concluded in these parts, was carried out to the close 
with the full detail to which I specially alluded in my last report. 
Much progress has been made in the preparation of the needful plates for the illustration 
of the Bivalves, the group which will be published next. 
At the request of several local officers we have, during the year, furnished brief 
geological descriptions of their districts, which they needed for statistical accounts, descriptive 
reports, &c., Ac. 
Library.— During the twelve months of 1868, we have added to our library 1,766 
volumes, or parts of volumes, of books. Of this total 508 were presented or received in 
exchange for the publications of the Geological Survey from Societies and other institutions. 
We continue to maintain our catalogue of these books up to date, and in the new series 
of our quarterly publications (The Records) a complete list is given, in each part, of those 
received during the preceding three months. Ii is hoped that this announcement being sent 
to the several Societies from whom the presentations have been received will suffice as an 
acknowledgment, and will thus obviate the necessity of separate communications. 
We are quite as seriously inconvenienced in our Library arrangements, by the want of 
sufficient space, as in the Museum. The books are necessarily placed in double rows and often 
far too crowded in their cases. This renders it impracticable to be as careful of them as 
might be, and also seriously interferes with facility of consultation or reference. To give fair 
room for all we would require at least double the number of cases and shelves we have 
at command. 
To this report is appended as usual a list of the Societies and Public Institutions from 
which the Geological Survey of India has received donations or exchange of publications 
during the year 1868. 
In my last report I stated that the literature of Geology, Mineralogy, Palaeontology, &c., 
had of late years so vastly increased that it was impossible to maintain our library effect¬ 
ively from the small sum annually appropriated to such purposes and I am happy to be 
able to state that an increase to this sum has since then been sanctioned. 
Museum. —Up to the close of the year we had not received all the series of fossils 
procured during 1867 in Europe, in connection with the purchase of the Klipstein collection. 
But few now remain to be received, and I hope to be in possession of all at an early date. 
During the year, I had the advantage of the aid of Mr. Geoff. tSTevill in arranging, 
preparing, and cataloguing these fossils as opportunity offered for opening and examining 
them. In many cases, the want of space has rendered it necessary merely to open, examine, 
check, and pack up again, box after box, as we have not space in which even to arrange, much 
less exhibit, our collections. Three additional rooms have been given up to the museum, 
and this will afford a certain amount of relief, when we have been able to procure cases. 
During the yeqr more than 6,000 specimens have been catalogued. 
We have returned to the Central Museum, Madras, the Cretaceous Gastropoda which they 
had been good enough to lend us for examination and description, and we have added to the 
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