II \!'l I.K III 

 COUTREMENT FOR THE FIELD 



Tin nature and extent of a geologist's accoutre; 



>f course, be regulated by the kind of work h 

 poses to undertake, and the character of the rocks among 

 \\ hi. h he is to be engaged. If his object be the collec- 

 tion of specimens of minerals, rocks, or fossils, he will 

 require one sort of apparatus ; it it U- the study of the 

 geological structure of the region, he will provide h 



mother sort It must U- understood at 



utset, that the ix>pular idea that a geologist must 

 necessarily be one who amasses stones and comes home 



i fresh burden from every excursion, is a popular 



ther mischievous delusion. 



Id-geology does not mean and need not include the 

 collecting of specimens. Consequently a formidable 

 series of hammers and chisels, a capacious wallet with 

 stores of wrapping-paper and pill taxes, are not absolutely 

 and always required. Rock -specimens and fossils are 

 best collected after the field -geologist has made some 

 progress with his examination of a disti t. i le < an then 

 begin to see what rocks really deserve to t>e illustrated by 

 specimens, and in what strata the search for fossils may 



