Henry Benedict Medlicott, F.R.S.

Abstract

ON April 6 there passed away one of the few survivors amongst the small body of men who laid the foundations of Indian geology. Despite much excellent work, chiefly by non-professional men, very little was really known of the geology of India, and especially of Peninsular India, before the middle of the nineteenth century, and as one instance amongst many, the Vindhyans, now believed to be Archæan, were still classed with Gondwana Permo-Carboniferous strata, and both were regarded as of Jurassic age. A comparison of Dr. Carter's “Summary of the Geology of India between the Ganges, the Indus and Cape Comorin,” published in 1853, with the “Manual of the Geology of India,” issued in 1879, Will show the great improvement that took place in the meantime in our knowledge of the country.