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proportion of the counties of England and Wales were as yet un- 

 represented. Mr. JeS's asked those Delegates who had not yet done so to 

 brino- the matter before their Societies, and to interest their photographic 

 members in the work. The object of the Committee was to secure "hj 

 systematic action in the various districts a series of photographs illustra- 

 ■tino- the features which geologists thought most worthy of being recorded 

 in their respective localities. The only portion of England where the 

 scheme had been .carried out to any extent was Yorkshire. The York- 

 shire Naturalists' Union had adopted the photographic method, and had 

 taken over 100 negatives. Mr. Hopkinson had brought the subject before 

 the Hertfordshire Natural History Society, and he hoped to receive 

 photographs from them shortly. A large number of the photographs 

 which had been I'eceived would be exhibited in the room of Section C, 

 and Mr. Jeffs invited the Delegates to inspect them. He added that the 

 Committee would be glad to receive any suggestions from the Delegates. 

 The counties from which photographs had been received were : — Dorset- 

 shire, Cornwall (very few), Devonshire (very few), Isle of Man (several), 

 Kent, Lancashire, Montgomeryshire, Nottmgham, a few from North 

 Wales, Suffolk, and Shropshire, a large number from Yorkshire, and 

 some from Scotland and Ireland. The list was manifestly very incom- 

 plete, and he hoped that by next year's Report it would be considerably 

 extended. Copies of the circular of instructions issued by the Committee 

 were circulated among the Delegates. 



Professor Lebour asked if any steps had been taken with respect to 

 the keeping of the photographs. 



Mr. Jeffs said that this matter had not yet been discussed by their 

 Committee. They intended to keep the photographs until the collection 

 had assumed a more complete form. A suggestion had been made to 

 render some of the best examples more available to the Delegates and to 

 the public, and more especially to those requiring them for educational 

 purposes, by issuing them in the form of a publication, but the matter 

 had not yet been properly discussed. 



Professor Bonney said that, as a member of the Committee on geo- 

 logical photography, he was enabled to state that the work had hitherto 

 been necessarily of a preliminary nature, and had been carried out by the 

 zeal and energy of Mr. Jeffs. The question of publication would come 

 before the Committee later on, and, speaking on his own behalf, he con- 

 sidered it of great importance that some step in this direction should be 

 taken. He expressed the opinion that the best destination of the photo- 

 graphs would be to lodge them with the Geulogical Society if they would 

 receive them. If an enlarged photograph were required for educational 

 purposes, the negative could then be borrowed for the purpose. It would, 

 of course, be a year or two before the photographs would be accessible. 

 When a large collection had been accumulated, it would be most useful 

 to select some thirty or forty of the more typical examples of geological 

 phenomena and to have them enlarged for publica'ion. Professor Bonney 

 expressed the opinion that, for the purposes of teaching, enlarged photo- 

 graphs would be better than photographs taken on a large scale. 



The discussion was continued by Mr. W. Watts and Mr. Eli Sower- 

 butts. The suggestions put forward by Professor Bonney were approved 

 of, and it was pointed out that it would be desirable that the Correspond- 

 ing Societies should have a list of the photographs already sent in to the 

 Committee, in order to know which were wanted and which were not.. 



