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WE are glad to welcome the annual report of the director of the Geological Survey upon the work carried on by his staff and himself during the year 1904. It gives not only an account of the areas surveyed and the maps issued, but affords an insight into the new methods of research rendered possible and necessary by the advance of scientific knowledge. It is clear that, although maps showing the distribution of the rocks over the whole of the British Isles have been published, the survey is by no means corn- plete, nor do we see that it can ever be considered as complete until all the resources of scientific investigatibn can be pronounced to be at an end. With regard to the maps themselves, much of the earlier work was put upon maps published as far back as 1819. Chemistry and physics, the appliances at the disposal of the petrologist, and the knowledge acquired by the palieontologist are all advancing with rapid strides, and we see on reading such a work as the annual report of the director of the Geological Survey how they are all brought to bear upon the economically important questions of identification of strata and utilisation of the resources buried in the earth.
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Report of the Geological Survey 1 . Nature 73, 204 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/073204a0
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