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Annual report for I860. 
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having been expressed that they should be sent in larger parts, or volumes, or half volumes 
I have thought it better to defer the issue for a little until a larger part can be published at 
once. The four parts, therefore, for the year 1889-70, the last of which will be due in 
October 1870, will he issued during the year before October, and will constitute half a volume. 
The plates for all these are quite ready, and separate fasciculi could he issued now, but, for 
the reasons here given, it is thought wiser to delay a little and give four parts in one, as 
was done before. 
The Records of the Geological Survey, which, as announced, are intended to convey a 
notice of the current work of the Survey, shorter papers, and abstracts of papers which 
cannot he published in detail at once, with analyses of works hearing upon the Geology of 
India, have punctually appeared at the stated intervals of three months. In the numbers 
for the past year, we have given to the public descriptions of the geology of the rich and 
productive valley of Berar; sketch of the Geology of Kuteh; of the Shillong plateau 
(since published in detail); of the Kuddapah and Kurnool districts in Madras, (of which 
detailed report is in press) ; on parts of Prome in British Bnrmah ; on the general relations 
of the metamorphic rocks of Bengal; in pabeontology, a careful description and plate of 
the fossil Paugshura (Emys) tecta, and other Chelonia. These are of very high interest, 
as they are truly identical with the same species, now living abundantly in this country, while 
the remains described were found along with remains of animals which have long ceased to 
exist in India, (Hippopotamus, Sivalherium, Mastodon, cfv.). Bearing on the practical 
applications of Geology, we have notices of gold inSinghbhum: of the mineral statistics 
of Kumaon, where a considerable amount of copper is still raised by the inhabitants; and 
on the coal-fields of the Central Provinces: while to meet the general interest excited 
in the history of the Nicobar Islands, and to answer many enquiries made regarding their 
geology, I have published a translation of the most recent and valuable contribution 
to their geological history, which having appeared in German, as a part of an expensive and 
not generally available series of publications, containing the researches of the scientific expedi¬ 
tion which the Austrian Government sent round the world in the “Novara” (1857-59), was 
not accessible generally to the public here. Full lists of the additions to our library here, 
of which so large a portion consists of exchanges with scientific institutions and societies in 
other countries, are also regularly given in the Records. 
In addition to the ordinary current work of the Survey much additional labour has been 
undertaken in furnishing brief notices or sketches of different districts or provinces for district 
officers, and lately more especially l'or the officers charged with the editing of the several 
Gazetteers now in preparation. These notices are necessarily required to he brief, but the 
briefer they are. the more time and trouble they cost. I have further undertaken to continue 
to supply these notices from time to time, not only for Bengal, hut for other parts of the 
country. Copies of geological maps, and sketch geological maps have also been given to 
several public authorities and others, who have been interested either in investigations con¬ 
nected with the mineral resources of the country, or for sanitary purposes. Of the value 
and utility of these maps, we have received cordial acknowledgments from all. 
Library.— During the year just past, 883 volumes or parts of volumes have been 
added to our library. Of this number 393 were presented by other institutions or 
societies, or were received in exchange for the publications of the Geological Survey. A full 
list, as already mentioned, is given of the additions every three months in the Records. As 
usual a list is here appended showing all the societies or public institutions from which 
donations or exchanges have been received during the year 1869. 
_ As with the collections, so also with our books, maps, we are most seriously incon¬ 
venienced by the very limited space available for their exhibition or preservation—a difficulty 
which there is at the present no means of obviating. 
Museum. —So far as there has been any room, additions have constantly been made to 
the collections exhibited in the Museum; and all practicable means are adopted to prepare 
other series for* exhibition, whenever it may he possible to accomplish this. More than 
30,000 specimens have passed through the Curator’s and Assistant Curator's hands, and have 
been entered and catalogued for reference during the year. But many of these had to be 
packed up again, there being no place to keep them otherwise. Cases have been procured as 
quickly as possible for the additional rooms noticed in last year’s report, hut they are not all 
ready yet. 
