Presidency College, Calcutta, a premier institution affiliated to the University of Calcutta has a glorious past. Of its many departments, Department of Geology, claims a front-rank with an enviable share of the glory.    Founded on July 17, 1892, it is the earliest independent department of teaching and learning geology in any educational institution in India with only the Madras Presidency College teaching geology earlier, albeit as a part of its courses of the Botany Department.

The more than hundred years of history has lots to hold high to the world. The Department has a long tradition of teaching and research in geology, not merely as a professional means, but, and more so, as a science, that could imbue students with reasoning, insight and audacity to face the task of truthfully exploring the earth in its right perspectives. The grooming produced not just a major bulk, but even the most of the brightest professionals and academicians of the country.

It has a long list of Architects, teachers or non-teachers, whose missionary zeal helped Buds to bloom. It set up a Geological Institute, a student-run academic organization, unique of its kind in at least Asia, to foster extra-academic acumen among the students by way of organizing seminars, meetings, tours and publications etc. The publication, Bhu Vidya, a bilingual annual intended to help students venture – think and express—beyond their class- room learning , on the very strength of the latter itself. The history long demanded documentation.