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Third Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor James 

 Geikie {Chairman), Dr. Tempest Andersox, Dr. Valentine 

 Ball, Mr. James E. Bedford, Professor T, G. Bonney, Professor 

 W. Boyd Dawkins, Mr. James W. Davis, Mr. Edmund J. Gar- 

 wood, Mr, William Gray, Mr. Egbert Kidston, Mr. Arthur 

 S. Keid, Mr. R. H. Tiddeman, Mr. W, W. Watts, Mr. Horace B. 

 Woodward, and Mr. Osmund W. Jeffs {Secretary), to arrange 

 for the collection, preservation, and systematic registration of 

 Photographs of Geological Interest in the United Kingdom. 

 {Draivn up by the Secretary.) 



In presenting their third report your Committee desire to observe that 

 although the number of photographs collected during the past year 

 shows a decrease as compared with the two previous years, yet a greater 

 proportion are of high scientific interest, and illustrate features of real 

 geological importance. At first it was unavoidable that a considerable 

 number of those received were only ' geological ' photographs in a general 

 sense. As explained in the last report,' it was not desired to restrict 

 this term too greatly ; but without some limit the collection would cease 

 to represent typical geological features of the United Kingdom, and 

 become simply a collection of landscape photographs. 



The number of photographs received and registered from the date of 

 the last report (August, 181»1) to the end of June, 1892, is 112, bringing 

 the total contents of the collection to 700. Owing to the early meeting 

 of the Association this year, the list was closed before a complete twelve 

 months' work could be recorded, and results have not yet reached the 

 Committee from several of the societies which have undertaken local sur- 

 veys for geological purposes. The following summary shows the geo- 

 graphical areas represented in the collection : — 



It will be seen from the foregoing that only about half of the English 

 counties are represented in the collection, while the small amount of the 

 contributions from sevei-al of those named in the list shows that consider- 

 able work is yet required to be done towards the completion of the scheme 

 the Committee have in view. 



" JRepori 1891, p. 321. 



