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FROM time to time articles and notes have been published in NATURE on the work of the British Association Committee for the collection of British photographs of geological interest. It is, however, twenty-five years (March 10, 1898, vol. 57, p. 437) since the last of these articles, by Prof. W. W. Watts, appeared. The collection at that time numbered 1750 prints; it now numbers 6310. It might perhaps be thought that this large number would afford a fairly complete record of the subject. This is very far from being the case. Even in the districts most fully illustrated, such as the Belfast district, Yorkshire, and parts of the south and west of England, there is still much to be done, while many parts of Ireland and some of Scotland are still quite unrepresented. It is, in fact, only when a district is so fortunate as to possess a resident who is keenly interested in such work (as Mr. G. Bingley for Yorkshire and Mr. R. Welch for Antrim) that a really adequate series of photographs has been taken. The photographic survey of the Island of Eigg carried out by Mr. A. S. Reid should be mentioned in this connexion.
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REYNOLDS, S. British Geological Photographs. Nature 113, 88–90 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113088a0
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