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also took the opportunity of mentioning that he could no longer 

 afford to publish the " Annals of British Geology," at a loss, but 

 that it must cea^e to exist unless he received increased support. 

 Mr. Whitaker trusted that Mr. Blake's remarks would tend to 

 prevent the cessation of a very useful and entertaining work. 



Geological Photographs. — Mr. Jeffs, Secretary to the Committee 

 dealing with this subject, said that th^ Committee had received 

 1,055 photographs, and that they passed a resolution recommend- 

 ing the Council of the British Association, whose property they were, 

 to deposit them in the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street, 

 London. 



Passing from Geology to Geography^ I have to note that Mr. 

 Sowerbutt?, the delegate of the Manchester Geographical Society, 

 who has, year after year, denounced the neglect of geography in 

 our primary schools, and who this year said, no doubt rightly, that 

 geography would never be properly taught unless it was made a 

 compulsory subject, admitted that some improvement had taken 

 place. It is, indeed, as Mr. Sowerbutts remarked, a strange thing 

 that geography should be so much neglected by a country owning 

 more isolated tracts of territory in every quarter of the world than 

 any other nation. The Manchester Geographical Society, of which 

 Mr. Sowe. butts is Secretary, has been in the habit of instituting 

 examinations in geography for school children. The result of a 

 recent examination on the geography of Yorkshire was to show that 

 out of 60 candidates, comprising t^-X) boys and 27 girls, the twelve 

 prizes and certificates had been won either by Yorkshire girls or 

 Lancashire boys. A glance at the report of the Society for 1 893, a 

 copy of which Mr. Sowerbutts was good enough to present to each 

 delegate, shows that the seven successful boys all came from the 

 Hulme Grammar School, Manchester, while the five prize-winning 

 girls had all been trained at the Northcote Girls' School, Armley, 

 Leeds. The advantages of sound methods in teaching geography 

 could not have been more triumphantly demonstrated. 



Mr. Brabrook gave some account of the progress made towards 

 the Ethnographical Survey during the past year. Their list of suitable 

 villages had, he said, considerably increased, and amounted to 367. 

 Mr. Brabrook mentioned the various places at which sub-committees 

 had been formed. The Keeper of the Museum at Liverpool, Dr. 

 Forbes, had rendered most valuable assistance, and the Glasgow 

 Archaeological Society had promised help. Of the places at which 



