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In Scotland the survey, extending westward from 

 the area where Ramsay began in 1854, had stretched 

 across the island from the mouth of the Firth of Tay 

 to the mouth of the Clyde, and southwards to a wavy 

 line drawn from Berwick-on-Tweed to Wigtown. 

 There were still large tracts of the counties of Berwick, 

 Roxburgh, Dumfries, Kirkcudbright, Wigtown, and 

 Ayr to be surveyed. The Highlands had not yet 

 been touched. 



In Ireland all the country south of a line drawn 

 from Clew Bay to Dundalk had been surveyed, and 

 most of it had been published. The ground to the 

 east of a line from Dundalk to Lough Neagh had 

 likewise been in great part surveyed and published. 

 All the northern part of the country was still un- 

 mapped, including the north-western tracts of Mayo, 

 Donegal, Londonderry, Tyrone, nearly the whole of 

 Antrim and Fermanagh, with large tracts of Sligo, 

 Leitrim, Monaghan, and Armagh. 



The duties of Director-General of the Geological 

 Survey and Director of the Museum of Practical 

 Geology are necessarily to a large extent administrative. 

 But as far as possible he keeps himself in touch with 

 the field-work by personally visiting the districts that 

 are being mapped, and becoming acquainted with the 

 details. By making himself familiar with the problems 

 encountered in each of the three kingdoms, he is 

 enabled to bring the experience of one branch of the 

 Survey to bear upon the difficulties of the others, and 

 thus to ensure more rapid progress as well as more 

 harmonious results over the whole United Kingdom. 

 All maps, sections, and memoirs, are submitted to him 

 before publication, and in this way a good deal of 

 editorial work is imposed upon him. The amount of 



