A Sketch of the Geography and Geology of the Himalaya Mountains and Tibet

Abstract

THE fourth part of the sketch of the geography and geology of the Himalayas is entirely the work of Mr. H. H. Hayden, and is devoted to a review of the present state of our knowledge of the Himalayas. This knowledge is fragmentary; of the Himalayas east of Sikkim only a few small patches, and these close to the southern margin, have been visited, then comes the independent State of Nepal, of which nothing at all is known, and it is only in the British territory and the native States under British control at the north-western extremity of the range that the geology is known, even approximately There is, consequently, a tendency to extend the knowledge of this region to the rest of the range, and to draw conclusions which are only doubtfully applicable.

A Sketch of the Geography and Geology of the Himalaya Mountains and Tibet.

By Col. S. G. Burrard H. H. Hayden. Part iv. The Geology of the Himalaya. (Calcutta: Government Printing Office, 1908.) Price 2 rupees.