'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From December 1854 to March 1856. (New Issue.) Edited by the Secretary. Volume XII.' [‎8] (19/258)

PREFACE.
viii
As the party to whom the publication of the Skele
ton Atlas is due, is the same who brought the bottle
log . system of observation into existence ; it is but
fair to mention that neither the one project, nor the
other, took its rise from the Society as a body. When
the system of obstructing the independent exertions of
the Society, referred to at p. ii. in the report of August
1854, was in most active operation, the Secretary took
these matters into his own hands as an individual, as the
only way of getting on, becoming personally responsible
for the charges.
The Atlases, the omission of which in the official list
is noticed at page Ixxiii, were despatched from the India
House in June 1854. They were first adverted to as
having reached Bombay in August 1855—while Govern
ment was supplied with bottle logs, noticed at the same
date in September 1852.