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SCIENTIFIC RESULTS 
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THE SECOND YARKAND MISSION. 
GEOLOGY. 
By W. T. BLANFOED. 
Introduction and General Sketch of the Geology of Western Tibet. 
I T is, of course, very difficult to do justice to a rough travelling diary, such as Dr. Stoliczka’s. 
In such a diary first impressions are very often recorded, and subsequent observations do 
not always show bow far the first notes require modification. To the writer this is a simple 
matter—bis notes are memoranda serving to recall details to bis mind; but to another, who 
does not possess the clue, it is very often difficult to ascertain bow far the notes in the diary 
agree with the final conclusions of the diarist. 
Of the greater portion of Dr. Stoliczka’s journey the geological results have already been 
published by himself in the Records of the Geological Survey of India 1 and the Quarterly 
Journal of the Geological Society . 3 A comparison of these papers with the original notes 
shows-that everything of interest in the latter, with the exception of an occasional section, has 
been extracted and condensed. These papers will, therefore, be here republished in sequence, 
with the addition only of such sections as can be extracted from the diary. The papers 
already mentioned contain the record of the geological observations from Leb, in Ladak, 
to Kashghar, and during two excursions from Kashghar to the northward. The notes 
from the Panjab, at Mari, through Kashmir, to Leb, refer to ground which had been 
previously examined either by Dr. Stoliczka himself, or by other geologists; but as 
very little geological information has yet been published concerning Kashmir, the notes are 
here repeated. Of the journey from Kasbgbar to the Pamir nothing has hitherto appeared 
in print. 
A brief summary of Dr. Stoliczka’s previous geological observations in the North-Western 
Himalayas will aid the reader in understanding the notes made in his last journey. His 
earlier travels enabled him to classify the rocks seen in the mountain ranges of Spiti, Kulu, 
Labaul, Eupshu, Zaskar or Zanskar, Ladak, and the neighbouring districts south of the Indus 
1 Vol. VII, 1874, pp. 12, 49, 51, 81; and Vol. VIII, 1875, p. 13. 
3 Vol. XXX, 1874, pp. 568, 571, 574. 
