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On the Works undertaken by the Governments of different 
States, for the Geological Examination of the Country: A 
Report on the Journey undertaken by Himself and Dr Hornes, 
at the instance of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, to Ger- 
many, England, France, and Switzerland. By FRANZ VON 
Haver. Communicated by WARRINGTON SmyTH, Esq., 
F.G.S., &e. 
In pursuance of the instructions received from the Acade- 
micians, W. Haidinger and P. Partsch, our principal endeavour 
was to become acquainted with such operations as are now 
in progress, at the expense of Government, in the various 
States through which we travelled, for the investigation of 
the geological structure of the country. 
To the following description I have added, by desire of the 
Bergrath Haidinger, from various writings, a general view 
of similar works in countries to which our journey was not 
extended, as Russia, Saxony, and North America; and, at 
the end, have brought forward, as a conclusion of the whole, 
those points which, in similar undertakings, have hitherto 
been chiefly kept in view. 
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The Geological Survey of Great Britain and Ireland.* 
1, History—tIn none of the European States has the geo- 
logical examination of the country been undertaken by the 
Government at such an outlay of money and force as in Great 
Britain. Starting from a small beginning, when Sir Henry 
De la Béche was employed in the Survey entirely alone, the 
Institution here to be described extended itself farther from 
year to year, till it attained its present flourishing condition, 
in which, under the careful direction of the same person, a 
numerous body is employed on the field-work, on the exami- 
nation of the materials obtained, and the graphic representa- 
tion of the observations made,—a condition in which a hand- 
* Professor Jameson, at the beginning of the present century, formally pro- 
posed and developed to the Highland Society of Scotland, a plan for Scotland, 
identical with that afterwards so efficiently and brilliantly carried into effect for 
Great Britain by the talent and energy of Sir H. De la Béche, powerfully sup- 
ported by the Government of the country. When Professor Jameson’s proposals 
_ were laid before the Society, the geological spirit was not fully abroad, and 
pecuniary means were wanting.—Prof, Jameson, Edit. Hd. Phil. Journal. 
