Date Note | Dates according to Toland (2022) |
Description | Geological 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 History | According 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) |
ArchNote | Source: 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 |