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WHEN Henry T. de la Beche was trying, in the early eighteen-thirties, to persuade the Govern ment to allow him to undertake an official geological survey of Great Britain, he encountered many objections of a financial nature. Even in 1840, five years after the “Ordnance Geological Survey”, as it was at first called, had been officially established, and de la Beche sought permission to spend the winter in London instead of in the field, a letter from the Board of Ordnance stated that the authorities had “adverted to what occurred in respect of the Scotch Geological Survey, and they desire that special care may be taken to prevent the occurrence of a similar fault in the English Survey”.
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N., F. Macculloch's Geological Map of Scotland. Nature 139, 974 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139974b0
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