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AT the meeting of the British Association in 1889, a Committee was appointed for the purpose of arranging for the collection, preservation, and systematic registration of photographs of geological interest in the United Kingdom. Since its formation, the Committee has succeeded in obtaining a number of photographs, 588 of which were received and registered up to August last; and in its second report, presented at the Cardiff meeting of the British Association, the Committee was able to state that, in the choice of subjects, greater care had been taken during the year to include the most typical views. As yet, only about half of the British counties are represented in the collection, while some are still represented inadequately. The work is one of great interest and importance, both from a scientific and an educational point of view, and it may be hoped that local Societies and Field Clubs, whose co-operation the Committee is particularly anxious to secure, will everywhere associate themselves with the scheme, and do what they can. to bring it to completion. The Committee, in a circular just issued, suggests that these Societies and Clubs might materially aid the scheme by mapping out their districts under the direction of a local geologist, and drawing up a list of sections and localities of which photographs would be desirable. New sections and exposures of strata should be noted. This preliminary work could be done during the winter session, and arrangements made for the use of the camera in the ensuing spring, or when opportunity offered.
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Geological Photographs. Nature 45, 64 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/045064a0
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