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Journal & Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal January to August November & December 1906 (New Series)

1907

The Journal of this Society includes but a fraction of 13Ianford's work in India His chief work was geological and palaeontological the results being published either in the Records and Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India or in the journals of European scientific societies. [...] Amongst publications of this kind it is only necessary to refer firstly to his address to the British Association at Montreal in 1884 when he demonstrated the truth of Huxley's theory of homtaxis in the descent of isolated faunas and floras bringing to a close at the same time the disputed question as to the age of the coabearing Gondwana system of Indian rocks ; and secondly to his a [...] His geological maps of the coalfields have been and still are the guide of colliery managers in Bengal : to their remarable accuracy has been due the successful opening up of new ground and the economical planning of works for the development of known deposits in a way which has saved the country many times the cost of his service and possibly even of the whole Department of Government to w [...] A Description of ye East India Coasts of 3Ialabar and Coromandel with their adjacent kingdoms and provinces ; and of the Empire of Ceylon and of the Idolatry of the Pagans in the East Indies. [...] The Roman word denarins in its Sanskrit form dinfira signifying a coin ocnurs not only in the Indian inscriptions of the early Gupta *-4140 but also in such _clawkicii1 AtulartLycoirks as the Kiljatarangini gailiauft and Dnia-Itumara-Carita of Dacodi and even in the earliest known Sanskrit lexicon called Amarakooa compiled by Amarasispha who was one of the nine gems of the court of Vikramadit
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
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