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CALCUTTA:

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1887.

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PART 1.

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA, AND OF THE GEOLOGICAL

MUSEUM, CALCUTTA, FOR THE YEAR 1886

Field-notes from Afghánistán: No. 4, from Túrkistán to India, by C. L. GRIESBACH

Physical Geology of West British Garhwal; with Notes on a Route Traverse through

Jaunsar-Bawar and Tiri-Garhwal, by C. S. MIDDLEMISS, B.A., Geological Survey

of India

CONTENTS.

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Notes on the Geology of the Garo Hills, by T. D. LATOUCHE, B.A., Geological Survey

of India

Note on some Indian image-stones, by COLONEL C. A. MCMAHON, F.G.S.

On Soundings recently taken off Barren Island and Narcondam, by COMMANDEr A.

CARPENTER, R.N., H.M.I.M.S. 'Investigator,' the officer in charge of the Marine

Survey of India

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Note on a character of the Talchir boulder beds, by W. T. BLANFORD, F.R.S.

Analysis of Phosphatic Nodules from the Salt-range, Punjab, by H. Warth, Ph.D.

PART 2.

The Fossil Vertebrata of India, by R. LYDEKKER, B.A., F.G.S., &c.

Note on the Echinoidea of the Cretaceous series of the Lower Narbada Valley, with re-

marks upon their Geological age, by PROFESSOR P. MARTIN DUNCAN, F.R.S., &c.,

November 1866

PART 3.

Field-notes: No. 5-to accompany a Geological Sketch Map of Afghanistan and

North-Eastern Khorassan, by C. L. GRIESBACH, C.I.E., Geological Survey of

India

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Notes on the Microscopic structure of some specimens of the Rájmahal and Deccan

traps, by COLONEL C. A. MCMAHON, F.G.S.

Some notes on the Dolerite of the Chor, by COLONEL C. A. McMahon, F.G.S.

On the identity of the Olive Series in the east, with the Speckled Sandstone in the

west, of the Salt Range, in the Punjab, by DR. H. WARTH

The Retirement of MR. MEDLICOTT

Notice of J. B. Mushketoff's Geology of Russian Turkistan. Compiled from translation
and notes of Professor F. Toula of Vienna, by C. L. GRIESBACH, C.I.E., Officiating
Superintendent, Geological Survey of India

Crystalline and Metamorphic Rocks of the Lower Himalaya, Garhwal, and Kumaun,

Section I by C. S. MIDDLEMISS, B.A., Officiating Deputy Superintendent, Geologi-

cal Survey of India. (With map and plate)

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