530 REPORT— 1898. 



the Cai'boniferous rocks in Britain several papers have appeared which 

 they hope are only the forerunners of numerous interesting communica- 

 tions on the same subject. 



The Committee beg to renew their appUcation for a small grant for 

 working expenses, which have already exceeded tlie amount originally 

 voted to them, the expenses, entailed by carriage of specimens, being a 

 constantly recurring charge on the Secretary of the Committee. 



Photografhs of Geological Interest in the United Kingdom. — Ninth 

 Beport of the Committee, consisting of Professor James Geikie 

 (Chairman), Professor T. G. Boxney, Dr. Tempest Andersox, 

 Mr. J. E. Bedford, Mr. H. Coates, Mr. C. V. Crook, Mr. E. J. 

 Garwood, Mr. J. G. Goodchild, Mr. "William Gray, Mr. 

 Robert Kidstox, Mr. A. S. Reid, Mr. J. J. H. Teall, Mr. 

 R. H. Tiddeman, Mr. H. B. Woodward, Mr. F. Woolnough, 

 u}id Professor W. W. Watts (Secretary). (Drawn ujp bij the 

 Secretary.) 



The Committee have the honour to report that during the year 250 new 

 photographs have been received, bringing the total number in the collec- 

 tion up to 2,001. No circulars have been sent out this year, but, in spite 

 of this, the number is above the average. 



In addition to this 41 prints and 14 slides have been given to tlie 

 duplicate collection, which now contains many representative photographs, 

 so that future additions are likely not to be so numerous, and to consist 

 only of exceptionally good examples of geological phenomena. ' 



The usual detailed list is appended in a shortened form, and a glance 

 at it will show that Northampton is now represented for the first time in 

 the collection, and that the following counties and districts are more 

 richly represented than hitherto : — Gloucester, Norfolk, Warwick, West- 

 moreland, Worcester, the Isle of Man, Aberdeen, Ayr, Bute, Banff, Fife, 

 Inverness, and Sutherland. 



Amongst the more noteworthy donations may be mentioned an 

 interesting set from Arran, Cumbrae, Ailsa Craig, and the Fifeshire 

 volcanic necks by Mr. A. S. Reid, together with some from Westmore- 

 land and Banffshire by the same donor ; a set from Glenroy and the 

 Scottish Highlands by Mr. W. Lamond Howie ; large series from West- 

 moreland and Yorkshire, many of them representing glacial phenomena, 

 unconformitie.s, and faults, by Mr. Godfrey Bingley ; pleistocene deposits by 

 Mr. G. Nichols ; dykes in the new red sandstone by the North Staffordshire 

 Naturalists' Field Club ; silurian, cambrian, and igneous rocks of the 

 Midlands by INIr. K. F. Bishop ; raised beaches in Devon by Miss Part- 

 ridge ; oolites by Mr. Coomara-Swamy ; a set from the Rochdale district 

 by the Rochdale Literary and Scientific Society ; a set from the Isle of 

 Man ; and one of typical specimens of rocks and microscopic slides. To 

 the donors mentioned and to the following your Committee are especially 

 indebted :— Mr. H. Preston, Mr. H. A. Allen, Mr. S. S. Piatt, Mr. A. 

 Strahan, Mr. Lowe, Mr. Stebbing, Mr. Hingley, Miss Andrews, Mr. 

 Meigh, Mr. Turner, Mr. H. C. McNeill, Mr. C. E. Salmon, Miss M. C. 

 Crostield, and to Herr Bjorlykke. 



The Committee would call attention to the small amount of work yet 

 done in such districts as N. and S. Wales, the Yorkshire Dales and Moors, 



