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in colours, and will, I think, prove a very excellent and admirable record of the geological 
examination of the country. We are greatly indebted to Captain W. G. Murray, in charge 
of the Lithographic Department of the Surveyor General’s Office, for the earnest and skilful 
attention he has given to this and other similar work, of which he lias done much with his 
own hands, and for the friendly and zealous aid he has throughout afforded. Indeed this is 
only a continuation of the same earnest assistance we have invariably experienced from 
Colonel Thuillier and all of his valued department. 
Of the Paljeontologia Indicia, the regular issue has been punctually maintained, 
with only one difference. It was found by experience that the small fasciculi, which at first 
were issued every three months and distributed at once, were frequently lost or much injured 
in transmission, or were not cared for afterwards as larger books would he. And ill 
consequence of several representations to this effect, the four fasciculi representing a twelve 
months’ issue of these palaeontological memoirs have been published as one part. The 
part or volume issued during 1870 contains the first portion of the bivalve mollusea of the 
Cretaceous rocks of Southern India (the Pele<n/puda). These have been illustrated with the 
same accuracy of detail and fulness of research as were the volumes already published of the 
Cephalopoda and Gastropoda. And the series has elicited the very highest encomiums from 
the best paleontologists and geologists of Europe. Dr. Ferd. Stoliczka, Paleontologist to 
the Survey, has throughout maintained the same thorough and indefatigable devotion to 
the work he has undertaken as have hitherto distinguished his labors. 
The preparation of the final geological maps to be issued on the basis of the sheets 
of the Atlas of India has made much progress. Two quarter sheets, including Madras 
Town and neighbourhood, are nearly ready (No. 78, north-east and south-east), and the copper 
plates of several others have been applied for, that the necessary transfers for geological 
purposes may he prepared. 
Geological descriptions of various parts of the country have been furnished to local officers, 
and especially a general sketch of the Geology of Orissa to Dr. W. W. Hunter tor his accounts 
of that province; of the Central Provinces, published in the Gazetteer of the Central Pro¬ 
vinces ; and of the Berars for the Gazetteer of those districts. Other similar sketches have 
been applied for, but in some cases too late to admit of their preparation in time. It ought to 
be borne in mind, that however brief such sketches may be,the very necessity for this conden¬ 
sation renders them more tedious and troublesome in preparation than a fuller report might he. 
Library. —Seven hundred and thirty-seven volumes or parts of serials have been added 
to the Library of the Geological Survey during the twelve mouths under report. Of this 
number no less than five hundred and twenty-five have been received in exchange for the pub¬ 
lications of the Geological Survey of India from Societies and other Institutions with which 
relations of exchange have been established. Of these accessions, a complete list for the three 
preceding months is given in each number of the Records, and to this report is added a list 
of all Societies or public Institutions from which, during the twelve months, donations or 
exchanges have been received. 
We still labour under the great disadvantage of having this valuable collection of books 
so crowded from want of proper space for their preservation, &o., that much time is lost and 
great inconvenience incurred when references are necessary. 
The Library of the Geological Survey has during the year been freely consulted by many 
besides the officers of the survey, and has proved very useful by affording access to many 
books not to be bad elsewhere in Calcutta or in India. 
Museum, —The regular and systematic numbering, entering, and cataloguing of the nu¬ 
merous additions to our collections progresses. Always a tedious process, it is in our case 
rendered more than usually so by the necessity we are under, from want of space, to pack 
