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THOUGH the Honourable East India Company had showed their interest in the advancement of geological science by the appointment, so long ago as 1818, of a geologist to the Great Trigonometrical Survey, it is but fifty years since the first “Report of the Geological Survey of India for 1848–49,” by Dr. John McClelland, was published. In 1851 Dr. McClelland was relieved by Dr. Thos. Oldham, who, on his arrival in Calcutta, found the Geological Survey represented in the capital of India by a room, a box and a messenger. One assistant, Mr. W. Theobald, was already in the employment of the Company, and during the following five years seven assistants were appointed, of whom but Mr. H. B. Medlicott and Dr. W. T. Blanford, names cut deep in the record of Indian geology, survive.
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Fifty Years of Geological Survey in India . Nature 62, 105–106 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/062105a0
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