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Records of ilte Urological Survey of India. 
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In the preceding sketch no attempt has been made to write a geological history of the 
country; for that purpose far more data must be accumulated than are at present available. 
Very much remains to be done before the geology of Western India can be said to he even 
tolerably well known. Of the rocks in many parts of this immense area, no descriptions 
exist except occasional notes collected by travellers; and even in the portions to which the 
Geological Survey has been extended, the examination has, in many cases, been but partial 
and preliminary. There is yet a wide field open to the geologist and naturalist, and there 
is no part of India which will in all probability more thoroughly repay careful search and 
enquiry than the Bombay Presidency. The chemical and lithological peculiarities of the 
trap formations and the minerals contained; the fauna and flora of the intertrappean beds; 
the multitude of organic forms in the Nummulitic rocks of Giijrat, Kaekh, and Sind; the 
mammalian bones of the Miocene and Pliocene conglomerates and gravels ;—all promise 
a mass of important discoveries to any one who will devote time and labour to their 
investigation. 
W. T. J1L AN FOR I). 
DONATIONS TO MUSEUM. 
E. A. Birch, Esq., M. D., Barrackpore.—A series of specimens of rocks, &c., and of 
auriferous quartz from New Zealand. 
W. Theobald, Esq. —Three stone implements from Burmah. 
F. Minchin, Esq., Aslca, Ganjam.—Portion of an elephant’s tusk from near Juggernatlipur. 
„ „ A specimen of quartz (pseudomorphic), Ganjam. 
„ „ A specimen of calcareous tufa from near Motajory. 
S. Kuez, Esq., Botanical Gardens.— Two specimens of fossil wood. 
ACCESSIONS TO LIBRARY. 
Feoh 1st April to 30th June 1872. 
Titles of Boohs. Donors. 
Anderson, John. —A Report on the Expedition to Western Yunan via Bhamo, (1871,) 
8vo., Calcutta. 
Government of India, Foreign Department. 
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Society of "Writers to H. M. Signet 
in Scotland, Part I, A.-L., (1871), 4to., Edinburgh. 
Curators op the Signet Library, Edinburgh. 
IIatden, F. V.—Preliminary Report of the United States Geological Survey of Wyoming 
and portions of contiguous territories, (1871), 8vo., Washington. 
The Author. 
Fotiez, V. L. V., et Michaud, A. L. G.—Galerie des Mollusques, Vol. I, (1838), II, (1841). 
With Atlas of 70 plates, (1838-1844), 8vo., Paris. 
Wells, Walter. —The water-power of Maine, (1869), 8vo., Augusta. 
Portland Soc. of Natural History. 
