274 KEPORT — 1894. 



27(6 Collection, Preservation, and Systematic Registration of Photograj^hs 

 of Geological Interest in the United Kingdom. — Fifth Report of the 

 Committee, consisting of Professor James Geikie (Chairman), 

 Professor T. G. Bonney, Dr. Tempest Anderson, Dr. Valentine 

 Ball, Mr. James E. Bedford, Professor W. Boyd Dawkins, 

 Mr. Edmund J. Garwood, Mr. J. G. Goodchild, Mr. William 

 Gray, Mr. Robert Kidston, Mr. Arthur S. Reid, Mr. J. J. H. 

 Teall, Mr. R. H. Tiddeman, Mr. W. W. Watts, Mr. Horace 

 B. Woodward, a,nd' Mr. Osmund W. Jeffs {Secretary). (Dravn 

 ujp try the Secretary.) 



Since the last Report, presented at the Nottingham meeting of the Asso- 

 ciation, your Committee have been enabled to add 215 photographs to 

 their collection, which has now reached a total of 1,055. This number, 

 again, shows a gratifying increase as compared with the two previous years. 

 The majority of these were, however, received late in the year, and it has 

 been found impossible to have them all arranged for exhibition before the 

 date of the opening meeting at Oxford. Your Committee, therefore, 

 respectfully suggest reappointment for another year at least, in order to 

 enable a complete and revised catalogue to be drawn up, which would be 

 more valuable for reference than the partial lists appearing in the various 

 annual reports. During the next year it is hoped that societies who have 

 been for some time engaged in the work of systematic photography of 

 geological sections in their districts, but have not yet sent in the results 

 obtained, will be able to make further progress with the work and enable 

 the Committee to make their own collection moi'e complete. The col- 

 lection has now assumed such proportions that a rearrangement of a more 

 systematic character than has hitherto been possible has become neces- 

 sary, and with the additions that are expected from various sources this 

 rearrangement in suitable albums and cases, duly indexed, will occupy 

 some time. 



The question of the location of the large number of photographs 

 now obtained has received the serious attention of the Committee, and 

 they have recommended to the Council that the collection be deposited at 

 the Museum of Practical Geology, London, where, in their opinion, it 

 would be most accessible to the general public for purposes of reference. 



At a meeting of the Committee held during the Nottingham meeting 

 several matters were discussed bearing upon the furtherance of the objects 

 for which the Committee were appointed. The various local societies have 

 been again urged, by circular, to assist the scheme of the Committee with 

 the object of completing a national collection of photographs, to serve as a 

 photographic survey of the geology of our own country. 



The Committee, having invited the views of members who are practical 

 photographers as to the most suitable form of camera for geological field 

 work, beg to tender their thanks to Drs. Tempest Anderson and H. J. 

 Johnston- Lavis, and to Messrs. Wilbert Goodchild, A. R. Hunt, C. 

 Defieux, and F. N. Eaton for suggestions and assistance rendered. It 

 still appears to be difficult to recommend a particular form of instrument, 

 as almost every photographer has his own favourite camera, and the 

 apparatus required varies with the class of work to be undertaken in the 



