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GROUP I.—MINING, QUARRYING, AND METALLURGY.
A.—COLLECTION CONTRIBUTED BY THE GEOLOGICAL SURYEY OF
INDIA, UNDER THE DTRECTION OF DR. OLDHAM.
The collections illustrating the mineral wealth of the Indian empire have been, with
very few exceptions, contributed by the Geological Survey of India, or through its inter-
vention. To those specimens noted in the accompanying list which have been sent by
others, the names of the senders have been attached. Where these specimens have been
sent through the Geological Survey, the letters G. S. I. have been added.
In addition to the specimens here catalogued, a very fine series of the fossils, figured
and described in the Palseontologia Indien, published by the Geological Survey of India,
were sent to Yienna, but no sufficient room being available for their exhibition in the
general building, they have been arranged at the Geological Institute, (K. K. Geologische
ReichsAnstalt in the Razumoffsky-gasse, Landstrasse) where the Director of the
Austrian Geological Survey has afforded the opportunity of making them conveniently
aecessible to geologists, and others interested in such studies.
Geological maps of various parts of India have also been sent, to show the style in
which the geological structure of the country is represented, and the scale on which the
Survey is carried out. The field maps of the Survey are represented by a MS. copy of
the geological map of the Salt ränge in the Punjab, showing the detailed nature of the
work in complicated and disturbed districts ; while the maps on the same scale of
1 mile=l inch of the entire district of Dumoh, with an index map on the smaller scale
of 1 inch = 4 miles, show the manner in which these are preserved and made available
for local and other officers. Sheets of the finished maps, as finally published on the “ Atlas
of India ” maps, are also given, including the country near Trichinopoly, and near Madras.
The collection also includes a complote series of the publications of the Geological
Survey, embracing nine volumes, Svo. of the Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India ;
five years issue of the Records of the Survey, and the complete series of the Palceontologia
Zndica, up to date, containing plates of fossils collected by the Geological Survey, with
detailed descriptions.
All the numbers are on small paper labels, of an oval form, attached to the specimens.
Diamonds.
From Ramulkota taluq, Kumool district, Madras
Presidency. Forwarded to Geol. Surv. Ind.by
T. Chase, Esq., Collr. of Kurnool.
Gold.
1. Auriferous sand, from Maunbhoom, Bengal.
See Records, Geol. Surv. India, vol. ii. p. 11.
2. Native gold, from Maunbhoom, Bengal. Ibid.
3. Native gold, from Chaibassa, Bengal. Ibid.
4. Native gold, rolled, from Brahmini River, Ben-
gal.
5. Auriferous sand, Singrowli, N.W. Provinces.
6. Washed gold, nuggets, Upper Assam. See Me
moirs, vol. i. p. 90.
7. Gold (rolled), Diliong River, Upper Assam.
Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. xxii. p. 511.
8. Gold (rolled), Noa-dehing River, Upper Assam.
9. Auriferous quartz, Malabar, Madras.
10. Auriferous felspar, Malabar, Madras.
11. Auriferous mica-schist, Malabar, Madras.
12. Auriferous clay, Malabar, Madras.
13. Auriferous sand, Shue Gyeen, Burmah. Mein.
Geol. Surv. India, vol. i. p. 94.
14. Residue, after washing the sand, No. 13.
15. Native gold, from the sand.
Iß. Washed gold, from the same locality.
17. Native gold, near Amarapura, Burmah. See
Mission to Court of Ava. p. 344.
18. Native gold, Little Tenasserim River, Tenasserim
provinces.
19. Auriferous pyrites, Malacca.
20. Auriferous porphyry, Malacca.
21. Granite of Gold mines, Malacca.
22. Argillaceous sandstone, washed for gold, Malay
Peninsula.
22«. Auriferous sand, from the Indus River, Kala-
bagh, Punjab.
Coppf.r.
23. Sulphide of copper, with carbonate, Maunbhoom,
Bengal. See Records, Geol. Surv. India,
vol. iii. p. 74.
23«. Hollow Castings of brass, representing elephant,
peacock, owT, and fish. These Castings are
principally interesting from the mode in which
they are produced by a single casting. The