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1821 First Geological Map of parts of India was of Hyderabad region by Dr H. W. Voysey

1840 Museum of Geology established in Calcutta in three rooms of Asiatic Society of Bengal

1846 D. H. Williams of British Geological Survey appointed geologic advisor to the East India Company for the purpose of carrying out geological survey of three coal bearing districts. He developed a number of deposits in Raniganj, Jharia and Karanpura coal fields
 

1851 Thomas Oldham arrived in Calcutta on 4th March and took charge of office on 5th March, 1851, which marks the establishment of the Geological Survey of India.
 

1854-55 H. B. Medlicott establishes three fold subdivision of the Vindhyans

1857 H. B. Medlicott surveys Himalayan Ranges between Ravi and Ganges and lays down the foundation of Himalayan Geology.

1858-60 Geological map of the Ranigunj coal fields by W. L. Wilson published. This is the first geological map of 1" = 1 Mile published by the Geological Survey of India

1860 J. G. Medlicott recognises three principal subdivisions of the coal bearing series and applied the names Talcher, Damuda and Mahadevas.
1873 Ram Singh becomes the first Indian to join Geological survey of india (as an apprentice)
1877 Geological Gallery in the new Indian Museum was thrown open to public on January 1
1892 Geology Classes started in Presidency College, Calcutta with T. H. Holland as the first part time professor of Geology.
1911 Revised Geological Map of India in 1"= 32 Mile scale was published under H. H. Hayden

1921-33 E. H. Pascoe’s "Manual of Geology of India" published in four volumes
  Some of the major memoirs published in the period 1921-35

C. S. Fox’s memoir on the Gondwana system and the lower Gondwana coalfields of India
E. R. Gee: Geology and coal reserves of Ranigunj Coalfields
J. B. Auden’s Vindhyan Sedimentaion in the Son Valley
H. C. Jones Iron Ore deposits of Bihar and Orissa.
L. L. Fermor’s Mineral Resources of Central Provinces of Bihar and Orissa.
D. N. Wadia’s Geology of Poonch State (Kashmir) and Syntaxis of the Northwest Himalaya

1951 M. S. Krishnan becomes the first Indian to be a Director of the Geological survey of India

................and the Odyssey goes on......

150 years of GSI

A Commemorative Volume--Story of GSI--has been published. The publication is for restricted circulation and is not priced
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