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Professor Watts : I am glad to take this opportunity of expressin"' 

 how deeply grateful I am to the local Societies for the help they have 

 given me during the time I have been Secretary of the Geological Photo- 

 graphic Committee. I should think that there are twenty Societies 

 which have contributed photographs, often very valuable ones, and at 

 least twelve Societies have done something or other towards makin<^ a 

 photographic survey of their geological districts. If there are any gentle- 

 men present at this Conference belonging to the counties at present 

 unrepresented which I am going to mention, I hope they will see that 

 their counties are no longer unrepresented. Rutland, Huntingdon, and 

 Cambridge are the only counties in England which have not yet con- 

 tributed. There are thi-ee Welsh counties and eleven Scotch counties 

 and fourteen Irish counties. Amongst these counties are such interesting 

 counties as Brecknock, Dumbarton, Ross-shire, Wicklow, Kilkenny, and 

 Waterford, in all of which there is a lot of geological work to be done. 

 I think I should make some slight allusion to the Publication Committee 

 that has been formed in association with us. It was thought that there 

 were a good many Societies which might like to have copies of photo- 

 graphs, and there have been made sixty or eighty or possibly a hundred 

 .sets of prints of interesting geological phenomena. Delays have un- 

 fortunately occurred, but still we are pushing on, and hope to complete 

 the publication within the specified time. The set of photographs that 

 should have been issued in 1900 is still unissued, but the prints are pre- 

 pared, and the slides will very shortly be prepared, and I hope they will 

 be issued to subscribers within a month. 



Mr. Whitaker : I would like to add a word on this matter, referring 

 not only to Section C, but to others. Unfortunately the grants were 

 much cut down. An application was made for a grant for the geological 

 photographs, and instead of obtaining 10^. it has fallen to 51. I hope 

 some means will be taken to make up the 5^., because I am afraid if we 

 do not Professor Watts will suffer in pocket, and that is not a thing that 

 should be allowed. It is a splendid Committee and does magnificent 

 work, and I have benefited very much by it, and through me others have 

 benefited by it, but the absence of money is very unsatisfactory, and 

 somehow or other we must try to get a little more funds. 



The Chairman : We are greatly indebted to Professor Watts not only 

 for giving this interesting explanation to the Conference, but also for the 

 amount of labour he has spent upon this work. He is the life and spirit 

 of the Committee, as we all know, and it is pleasing to hear that he has 

 been so ably assisted by a large number of local Societies that are in 

 ■correspondence with us. 



Professor Kendall : I should like to put in a word about the grant 

 for the erratic blocks. I had Ql. last year and spent it all and more than 

 all. I thought that I would make a modest demand this year, and that 

 if I asked for 10/. I should get 5/. I modestly asked for 5/. and got 

 nothing at all. That is rather a hard case. The expense of the erratic 

 blocks Committee is considerable. In the present year it is particularly 

 unfortunate. In my report I am making an offer which will inevitably 

 involve an expenditure of time, which we all expect, and of money, which 

 ■we do not expect. Three years ago I visited Norway to study and collect 

 specimens of the most characteristic rocks of Norway that we know to 

 occur in the British group, and I have brought back about a ton of them. 

 Last year I went and collected on a liberal scale the rocks on the 



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