t)74 REPORT — 1895. 



surface, there we may expect to find pre-existing disturbances of the older beds 

 beneath. This, however, is a somewhat controversial question, and much remains 

 to be done on it ; but should it be proved as a general rule it may have much effect 

 on our underground coal. 



Finally, the question of the possibility of finding and of working coal in 

 various parts of South-Eastern England is not merely of local interest ; it is of 

 national importance. The time must come when tlie coal-fields that we have 

 worked for years will be more or less exhausted, and we ou<>ht certainly to look 

 out ahead for others, .so as to be ready for the lessening yield of those that have 

 served us so well. It is on our coal that our national prosperity largely, one may 

 say chiefly, depends, and, as far as we can see, will depend. Let us not neglect 

 any of the bounteous gifts of nature, but let us show rather that we are ready to 

 search for the treasures that may be hidden under our feet, and the finding of 

 which will result in the continued welfare of our native land. 



Appendix. 



List of the Chief Papers on the Old Rochs Underground in South-Eastern 

 England since 1889, tohen the literature of the subject loas treated of 

 in the Memoir on the Geology of London, &c. 



Bertrand, Professor M. Sur le Raccordement des Bassins houillers du Nord de 

 la France et du Sud de I'Angleterre. Annalen des 31ines and Trans. Fed. Inst. Min. 

 Eruj., vol. v. (lsO:-i). 



Brady, F. Dover Coal Boring. Observations on the Correlation of the Franco- 

 Belgian, Dover and Somerset Coal Fields, 8vo. 1892. Second Issue, with Additions, 

 189;^. Notice by E. Lorieux in Annales des Mines, 1892. 



Dawkins, Professor W. B. The Discovery of Coal near Dover, Nature, vol. 41, 

 pp. 418, 419 ; Iron and Coal Trades Gazette ; Contemporari/ Review, vol. Ivii., jip. 

 470-478. The Search for Coal in the South of England, Proc. Roy. Inst, (nine 

 pages) ; Nature, vol. 42, pp. H19-322. The Discovery of Coal Measures near 

 Dover, Trans. MancUester Gcol. Soc., vol. xx., pp. 502-517 (1890). 



The Further Discovery of Coal at Dover and its Bearing on the Coal Question. 

 Trans. Manchester Geol. Soe.. vol. xxi., pp. 456-474 (1892). 



On the South-Eastern Coalfield at Dover, Trans. Manchester Geol. Soc., vol. 

 xxii., pp. 488-510 ; The Probable Range of the Coal-Measures in Southern England, 

 Trans. Fed. lust. Min. Enr/., vol. vii., 1.3 pages and jslate (1894). 



Harrison, W. J. On the Search for Coal in the South-East of England ; with 

 Special Reference to the Probability of the Existence of a Coal-field beneath Essex, 

 28 pages and plate. 8vo. Birmingham (1894). 



Irving, Rev. Dr. A. The Question of Workable Coal Measures beneath Essex. 

 Herts and Essex Ohserrer, July 14, 1894. 



Martin, E. A. On the Underground Geology of London. Science Gossip, no. 

 335. pp. 251-254 ; no. 337, pp. 11-15 (1892, 1893). 



Riicker, Professor A. W., and Professor T. E. Thorpe. Magnetic Survey of the 

 British Isles, Phil Trans., vol. 181, see pp. 280 &c., and plate 14 (1891); A 

 popular account by Professor Riicker under the title Underground Mountains, 

 Good Words, January to March 1890. 



Topley, W. Coal in Kent. Trans. Fed. Inst. 3Iin. Emj., vol. i., pp. 376-387 

 (1892). 



Whitaker, W. Coal in the South East of England, Journ. Soc. Arts., \o\. 

 xxxviii., pp. 543-557; Suggestions on Sites for Coal-search in the South-East of 

 England, Geol. Mag., dec. iii., vol. vii., pp. 514-516 (1890). 



WMtaker, W., and A. J. Jukes-Browne. On Deep Borings at Culford and 

 Winkfield, with Notes on those at Ware and Cheshunt. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soe., 

 vol. 1., pp. 488-514 (1894). 



The Eastern Counties' Coal Boring and Development Syndicate . . . Geological 

 Reports by T, V. Holmes, J. E. Taylor and W. WMtaker, 15 pages, Svo. Ipswich 

 (1893). Partly reprinted in Essex Naturalist. 



