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Records of the Geological Survey of India. 
[vol. VI. 
In Madras Mr. W. King had, at the commencement of the year, taken up the examina¬ 
tion of the country adjoining the Godavari, in continuation of the preliminary survey of the 
same area which had been carried out by Mr. Blanford, whose health did not admit of his 
returning to that district. As it was important that the more southern portion of the coun¬ 
try should be carefully examined prior to proceeding to the less accessible area further north, 
Mr. King’s attention has been chiefly directed to the country extending between Dumagu- 
diem and Kummummett. Some of the principal results arrived at have been already pub¬ 
lished in the Records of the Geological Survey for L872, so they need not be detailed here. In 
one place, a limited area of coal-bearing rocks was traced out, and actual beds of coal 
found ; but the country is so covered with jungle, and so thickly coated with debris and 
recent deposits, that nothing very definite can be asserted regarding the extent or value of 
this coal without borings. Another small area near Ashwarowpetta holds out some promise, 
but this also must be actually tested before any satisfactory conclusion can be arrived at. 
Towards the close of the year, when it was too early in the season to enter the jungly 
country to the north with any safety, Mr. King has made a careful examination of the 
country between the Godavari, and Rajahmuudry, and the sea, and has there found some fossili- 
ferous beds, the organic remains from which will prove of high interest. He has also 
brought the well known fossiliferous beds of Kateru, near Rajahmuudry, into strut igraphical 
relationship with those occurring at Pungady on the opposite bank of the Godavari—here a 
stream of great width. As the jungles become drier and more accessible, Mr. King will 
extend his researches northwards. 
Mr. .Foote has been steadily carrying out the boundary lines between the great area of 
the Deccan trap rocks and the underlying beds ; and between those intermediate beds and the 
gneiss rocks on which they rest. Ho has connected his lines with thoso previously mapped 
in by Mr. Wilkinson to the west. The entire area examined, excepting a few square 
miles on the top of the plateaux, is within the drainage basins of the Kistna, Gatpurba, and 
Malparba rivers. Mr. Foote has also been fortunate enough to add to the valuable series of 
fossils, hones, &c., of Rh inoceros, which he had obtained during the previous year, and to find 
others of bovine animals, together with deposits of fresh-water shells, which on examination 
proved to be very similar to those found with the ossiferous clays and gravels of the Narbada 
valley. There can be no question that these ossiferous beds will prove of the very highest 
interest when fully worked out, as bearing on the distribution of genera in these pleiocene 
deposits, which still exist in other areas, hut winch have entirely ceased to exist within the 
limits of the districts where their remains are found. 
In Durmali, Mr. Theobald has been engaged in extending his examination of the 
country between the central range and the eastern boundary of the country on the Sittang 
river. The present season will see tho completion of his examination of British Burmah 
proper ; and a map and general report will then he prepared for publication. 
Dr. Stoliczka, in the early part oE the year', completed his detailed examination of the 
Province of Kutch (Kach'h), in which he has been enabled, by the application of his 
palaeontological knowledge, to define several well marked sub-divisions or horizons in the 
jurassic rocks, and to establish ihcjr close relationship to the acknowledged groups in 
European classifications. The full details of these are being prepared for publication, while 
the magnificent series of fossils also obtained will he worked out as soon as possible. 
Publications. —The Recoups of tiie Geological Survey of India have appeared 
with regularity at the established three-monthly intervals. In the series for the past year, 
besides the Annual Report of the Survey, papers, more nr less in detail, have been given, 
treating of very varied subjects and localities. It would have been impracticable for a 
