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In Ireland, the specimens were first formed into a museum 
at the Ordnance Survey Office in Belfast, and afterwards 
transferred to Dublin, where they are now placed in the 
Museum of Irish Industry. 
In 1845, the Geological Survey was transferred from the 
Ordnance Survey to the charge of the Chief Commissioner 
of Her Majesty’s Woods, Works, and Land Revenues; and 
an Act of Parliament was passed, giving the necessary 
powers to all duly appointed officers of the Survey to 
examine every portion of the country without fear of being 
prosecuted as trespassers on private property. 
Professor A. C. Ramsay was appointed the first Local 
Director for Great Britain, and Captain (now Sir Henry) 
James for Ireland, acting under De la Beche as Dire¢ctor- 
General. Meanwhile the Office of Woods and Forests was 
modified, and, on the formation of the Department of 
Science and Art in the year 1854, the Geological Survey of 
the United Kingdom was consigned to it, at first under the 
Board of Trade, and afterwards under the Committee of 
Privy Council for Education. 
Since this period, great changes have taken place in the 
direction and organisation of the Survey, while the staff has 
been largely increased. The Director-General, Sir Henry 
De la Beche, died in 1855, and was succeeded by Sir 
Roderick Murchison, who died in 1871. Professor Ramsay 
then received the appointment, and Mr. Bristow was made 
Director for England and Wales. Captain James (now 
Director of the Ordnance Survey) was succeeded in Ireland 
by Dr. Oldham (now Superintendent of the Geological 
Survey of India), Dr. Oldham by Mr. Jukes, who died in 
1869, and he by Mr. Hull. Scotland, too, has been severed 
from England, and Mr. Geikie appointed Director. 
As at present constituted, therefore, the Geological Survey 
of the United Kingdom is under the Diretor-Generalship 
fimeroiessor, A. C.. Ramsay, LL.D..F.R.S. Mr. -H. W: 
Bristow, F.R.S., &c., is Director for England and Wales; 
Mr. Edward Hull, M.A., F.R.S., is Director for Ireland; 
and Professor Archibald Geikie, LL.D., F.R.S., for Scotland. 
The field-staff embraces two distri¢t-surveyors, eight geolo- 
gists, twenty-four assistant-geologists, and one fossil col- 
lector, in England; one distri¢t-surveyor, three geologists, 
nine assistant-geologists, and two fossil-collectors, in Ireland; 
and one district-surveyor, two geologists, six assistant-geolo- 
gists, and two fossil collectors in Scotland. In addition to 
these officers, Mr. R. Etheridge, F.R.S. (Palzontologist), 
ead rotessor I. H.- Huxley; LL.D., F.R.S- (Naturalist), 
