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PROBABLY no instrument—not including the bicycle has more facilitated the labours of the geologist than the photographic camera, which has for some time past become almost as necessary a part of his outfit as the indispensable hammer. Professional and amateur workers alike carry it, and photographs of geological features do increasingly abound. This was already true in 1888, when the happy idea occurred to Mr. Osmund W. Jeffs of forming a public collection of geological photographs, which should be lodged in some central and readily accessible place. As he rightly pointed out, 41 photographic records of sections and other geological features are not only invaluable aids to geological instruction, but serve also to preserve for future reference the details of many exposures of strata and other landscape features, which in course of time … are in danger of becoming obliterated.” At Mr. Jeffs's suggestion, a Committee of the British Association was appointed at the Bath meeting, charged with the duty of obtaining geological photographs, which were to be duly preserved, catalogued, dated and described. The Committee commenced its labours by inviting contributions from all British geologists, and its appeal met with a most generous response. Photographs at once began to flow in, and have continued to do so ever since, so that a vast mass of valuable material is now accumulated in the Museum of Geology, Jermyn Street, which was selected as the home of the collection.
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British Association Geological Photographs . Nature 67, 32–33 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/067032f0
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