Abstract
THIS work constitutes volume xli. of the memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, and its publication will rank high on the already long list of works upon the economic mineralogy of India, for which we are indebted to the Indian Geological Survey. Unlike many others, the authorities responsible for the geological survey of the Peninsula have realised the full importance of the economic side of their work, and have devoted much attention to it, to the manifest advantage of the Indian mineral industry. The present work is the more opportune because in spite of the rapidly increasing importance of the coal production of India, no connected account of the Indian coalfields, as they now exist, was anywhere available, and information concerning individual coalfields or collieries had to be collected from a very miscellaneous series of publications; how widely scattered this information is may be gathered from the bibliography appended to the present treatise, which covers no fewer than twenty pages of the book.
The Coalfields of India.
By the late Prof. V. Ball. Entirely revised and largely re-written by R. R. Simpson. Pp. 147 + xliv. (Calcutta: Published by order of the Government of India, 1913.)
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L., H. Coal in India . Nature 92, iii (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/092iiia0
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