Ref NoLDGSL/947/6/R/14
TitleGeological colouring on 'Improved map of India, compiled from all the latest and most authentic materials...'
Date1816
[1843-1851]
Date NoteDates according to Toland (2022)
LevelItem
Extent9 mounted as 7 sheets + index
FormatMap/section
DescriptionGeological colouring with copious notes by George Bellas Greenough, [1843-1851], on base map 'Improved map of India, compiled from all the latest and most authentic materials...', published by Aaron Arrowsmith, 1816. Scale-1:1,000,000. Dissected on cloth. Greenough no.1744
Administrative HistoryAccording to Toland (2022), the map is likely an earliest surviving full draft of Greenough's map of India.

Authors or works cited on the map include: William Moorcroft; Joseph Dalton Hooker; Proby Cautley "Notice of the occurrence of Coal and Lignite in the Himalaya", . Asiatick Researches, vol XVI (1828); Captain J D Herbert, "On the mineral productions of that part of the Himalaya Moutains lying between the Satlaj and Kali (Gagra) Rivers", Transactions of the Asiatic Society, Bengal, vol 18 (1833); Henry Thomas Colebrooke, "On the valley of the Sutlej River in the Himalaya Mountain" (1820), Transactions of the Geological Society, S2, vol 1 (1824); Henry Thomas Colebrooke, "Geology of the Himalaya Mountains", Quarterly Journal of Science, vol 10 (1821); Reverend R Everest, "Memorandum on the fossil shells discovered in the Himalayan Mountains", Transactions of the Asiatic Society, Bengal, vol 18 (1833); James Fraser, "Notes accompanying a Set of Specimens from the Himalay Mountains", Transactions of the Geological Society, vol 5 (1821); G W Traill, " Statistical report on the Bhotia Mehals of Kamaon", Asiatick Researches, vol XVII (1832); Bryan Houghton Hodgson; W E Barker and H M Durant, "Account of the Skull of a Fossil Quadrumanous Animal found in the Tertiary Rocks of the Sub-Himalayan Hills near the Sutlej", Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, vol 23 (1837)
ProvenanceGreenough bequest
Access ConditionsAccess is by appointment only. Please contact the Archivist for further information.
LanguageEnglish
ArchNoteSource: Toland, C, "George Bellas Greenough's General Sketch of the Physical and Geological Features of British India (1854, 1855): its production, distribution, variants and survivorship", Earth Sciences History, vol 41, Dec 2022. Description by Caroline Lam
CreatorNameGREENOUGH | George Bellas | 1778-1855 | geologist
ARROWSMITH | Aaron, the elder | 1750-1823 | cartographer and map publisher
Previous referenceLDGSL/1008/162
Persons
CodePersonNameDates
DS/UK/8GREENOUGH; George Bellas (1778-1855); geologist1778-1855
DS/UK/805ARROWSMITH; Aaron, the elder (1750-1823); cartographer and map publisher1750-1823
Places
CodePlaceName
NA165India
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