380 REPORT—1899: 
The representatives of the late W. Topley have presented 19 photo- 
graphs taken on the rivers Elan and Claerwen on the site of the new 
Birmingham waterworks. A most useful account of the geological features 
of these photographs has been communicated by Mr. H. Lapworth, the 
chief authority on the geology of the district. 
Mr. J. A. Cunningham has illustrated photographically the contorted 
Carboniferous Limestones of the Loughshinny district, near Dublin, some 
of which have been rendered classic by the Memoirs of the Geological 
Survey of Ireland. 
Amongst other sets the following should be especially mentioned :—The 
Ingleton district by Mr. F. N. Eaton, the Devonshire coast by Miss Part- 
ridge, the Purbeck, Portland, and Lower Greensand Strata in Buckingham- 
shire by Mr. Pledge, and a series of dykes in Down by Miss Andrews. 
To the donors and others above mentioned and to the following, the 
Committee are much indebted :—Miss Silverston, Mr. R. McF. Mure, 
Mr. J. H. Baldock, Mr. A. Watkins and Mr. H. Cecil Moore,.Mr. E. J. 
Garwood, Mr. K. F. Bishop, Mr. W. G. Orme, Mr. W. Wickham King, 
Mr. W. Gray, Mr. Stelfox, and Mr. G. Nichols. 
There is still much room for work in the Pennine Chain, especially its 
western side, the Weald, the Cotswolds and Edge Hills, North and South 
Wales, the Yorkshire Moors and Wolds, the Malverns, the Oxford and 
Cambridge districts, Cornwall, the Southern Uplands and the Highlands 
of Scotland, and in central and southern Ireland. 
Notices of the work of the Committee have appeared in many periodi- 
cals and journals, and an article was published in ‘Science Work’ illus- 
trated by a beautiful reproduction of one of Mr. Reid’s photographs of the 
Scuir of Eigg. 
The photographs received during the year have been mounted and will 
be exhibited at Dover, after which they will be bound up and deposited 
with the rest of the collection at 28 Jermyn Street, where they may 
always be referred to on application to the Librarian. The collection is 
arranged geographically in twenty-seven albums under the heads of 
counties, and their natural topographical divisions. A catalogue arranged 
under counties is kept in the Library for reference, and the card catalogue 
is maintained up to date as new photographs are received. 
The numbers of six old lost photographs, which it has not been possible 
to recover, have been finally cancelled and some of this year’s prints and 
one renewal have been inserted in their place ; such numbers are those on 
List I., between 2 and 302, and a separate list (II.) of the cancelled 
photographs is given. 
Certain corrections in former lists have been kindly made by Mr. 
Welch, to whom the thanks of the Committee are due. These are placed 
in List IIT., in which are also placed 13 photographs renewed by Mr. 
Gray, Mr. Eaton, Mr. Welch, and Mr. Stelfox. 
Many geologists, British and foreign, have expressed a desire to 
possess examples of geological photographs which they have seen in the 
collection. The Committee are willing to undertake the publication of a 
small experimental series if a guarantee fund can be formed as a safeguard 
against loss. 
The publication would take the form of the issue of about twenty 
photographs in platinotype or carbon, or high-class process reproductions, 
accompanied by descriptive letterpress. If the subscribers preferred, 
lantern slides might be issued instead of prints or in addition to them, 
