Geolocrical Address at Manchester* 413 



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wherein tlie elevated coal deposits are covered by drift only, in 

 contradistinction to those which are still surmounted by red rocks 

 of Permian and Triassic age. In seeing that these are eagerly 

 bought by the public, and in recognizing the great use which the 

 six-inch survey has proved in the hands of the geological survey- 

 ors in Scotland, our friends in and around Manchester may be 

 led to insist on having that large scale of survey extended to their 

 own important district. By referring to the detailed delineations 

 of the outcrops of all the Carboniferous strata in the counties of 

 Edinburgh, Haddington, Fife, and Linlithgow, as noted by Pro- 

 fessor Ramsay and Messrs. Howell and Geikie, the coal propri- 

 etors of England will doubtless recognize the great value of such 

 determinations. 



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" Geological Survey and Government School of Mines, Mineral 

 Statistics, and Colonial Surveys. — As I preside for the first time 

 over this section since I was placed at the head of the Geological 

 Survey of Britain, I may be excused for making an allusion to 

 that national establishment, by stating that the public now take 

 a lively interest in it, as proved by a largely-increased demand for 

 our maps and their illustrations — a demand which will, I doubt 

 not, be much augmented by the translation at an early day of 

 many of our field surveyors from the south-eastern and central 

 parts of England, where they are now chiefly employed, to those 

 northern districts where they will be instrumental in developing 

 the superior mineral wealth of the region. 



*' The Government School of Mines, an oftshoot of the Geolo- 

 gical Survey, is primarily intended to furnish miners, metallurgists, 

 and geological surveyors with the scientific training necessary for 

 the successful pursuit and progressive advancement of the callings 

 which they respectively pursue ; but at the same time the lectures 

 and the laboratories are open to all those who seek instruction in 

 physical science for its own sake, by reason of its important ap- 

 plication to manufactures and the arts. The experience of ten 

 years has led the professors to introduce various modifications into 

 their original programme — with the view of adapting the school 

 as clearly as possible to the wants of those two classes of students ; 

 and at present, while a definite curriculum, with special rewards 



