WOL. XV. (1) CHEPSTOW ANTICLINE oy 
NOTE ON AN ANTICLINE 
IN THE 
CARBONIFEROUS LIMESTONE AT CHEPSTOW 
BY 
L. RICHARDSON, F.G.S. 
(See Frontispiece. ) 
For the excellent picture which forms the frontispiece 
of the present part of the Proceedings, the Club is indebted 
to the generosity of Mrs Price, of Tibberton Court. The 
little anticline depicted is seen on the right-hand side of the 
Chepstow and Gloucester road, where it ascends the hill 
after crossing the bridge over the River Wye. The 
picture is another instance, among many others, of the use 
‘which may be made of photography in geological research ; 
since at a glance such reproductions from photographs 
present us with a truthful representation of a natural 
phenomenon, and record facts which might be inadvert- 
ently omitted from an ordinary sketch. 
So important an accessory has photography now become 
to geology, that the British Association appointed a com- 
mittee in 1889 to form a permanent public collection 
of photographs illustrating, as far as possible, the most 
important features of geological interest in the United 
Kingdom. “Up to the year 1895,” wrote Dr H. 
Woodward, in a recent number of the .Geological 
_ Magazine (1903), “twelve hundred photographs had 
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