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Photographs of Geological Interest,— Tiventy-second Report of 

 Committee (Professors tu. J. Garwood, Chairman ; S. H. Reynolds, 

 Secretary; Mr. G. Bingley, Mr. C. V. Crook, Mr. A. S. Reid, 

 Professor W. W. Watts, and Mr. R. Welch). 



Since the publication of the previous report (Liverpool, 1923), the Committee has 

 sufEered severe loss in the death of several of its oldest members, Dr. T. G. Bonney, 

 Dr. R. Kidston, Sir J. J. H. Teall, and Mr. W. Whitaker. 



Since the issue of the previous report the Committee has had presented to it by 

 Mr. F. W. Reader the great collection of geological negatives made by his brother the 

 late Mr. T. W. Reader. These photographs were mainly taken on the excursions of the 

 Geologists' Association, which Mr. T. W. Reader regularly attended for many years. 

 They form an unique series, and are particularly important in the illustrations they 

 afiord of the geology of the Home Counties, which have hitherto not been well repre- 

 sented in the coUoction. A large proportion of the negatives were accompanied by 

 one or more prints. Time has not yet allowed the whole to be thoroughly dealt with, 

 but 611 prints from the Reader collection are listed in the present report. 



The Committee wish to repeat their very hearty thanks to Mr. F. W. Reader for 

 his most valuable and important gift. 



The task of getting the Reader photographs described, prior to listing, was a very 

 heavy one, and could not have been accomplished had not the Secretary received 

 unstinted help from many geologists, including the leaders of the excursions on which 

 many of the photographs were taken. The Committee are particularly indebted to 

 Miss M. S. Johnston, who most kindly transcribed on to some hundreds of prints the 

 information entered in Mr. Reader's own albums, which are now in her possession. 



Hearty thanks are tendered to the following for help in the description of the Reader 

 photographs — Mr. G. Barrow, Dr. B. Pope Bartlett, Mr. C. J. Bayzand, Dr. H. H. 

 Bemrose, Dr. F. W. Bennett, Prof. P. G. H. Boswell, Mr. S. S. Buckman, Mr. E. St. 

 J. Burton, Mr. H. Bury, Miss M. E. J. Chandler, Mr. R. H. Chandler, Mr. E. S. Cobbold, 

 Prof. A. H. Cox, Prof. A. Morley Davies, Mr. E. H. Davison, Mr. G. E. Dibloy, Mr. E. 

 E. L. Dixon, Mr. E. W. Handcock, Prof. H. L. Hawkins, Mr. R. S. Herries, the Rev. 

 E. Hill, Mr. J. W. Jackson, Prof. P. F. Kendall, Mr. W. B. R. King, Dr. W. D. Lang, 

 Mr. A. L. Leach, Mr. H. W. Monckton, Dr. G. M. Part, Mr. R. W. Pocock, Mr. S. 

 Priest, Mr. L. Richardson, Mr. H. C. Sargent, Mr. C. Davies Sherborn, Dr. R. L. 

 Sherlock, Mr. LI. Treacher, Mr. J. W. Tutcher, Mr. G. W. Young. 



The Committee particularly wish to thank Dr. W. D. Lang for the very large 

 amount of trouble he has taken in minutely describing, with the aid of lettered sketches, 

 the photographs illustrating the Dorsetshire Lias. There is nothing in the Committee's 

 collection to vie with these in artistic completeness. 



The total number of photographs listed in the present report is 869. 



In most years the collection received from the Isle of Wight would be the most 

 important of the year. It forms a set of eighty, all photographed and described 

 by Mr. J. F. Jackson, F.G.S., and was presented in part by Mr. F. Morey and m part 

 after his lamented death by his sister Miss C. Morey. 



The Committee are glad to welcome new contributors in Mr. A. W. Coysh, Mr. 

 C. S. Garnett, and Mr. G. G. Lewis. 



Mr. Tutcher sends a further series of his excellent photographs illustrating the Lias 

 of Somerset, Mr. E. H. Davison a valuable series from Cornwall, and Mr. P. B. 

 Roberts an interesting set from Wicklow. Mr. A. L. Leach and the Secretary contribute 

 photographs from Norfolk. The Committee has acquired, by purchase, some of Mr. 

 J. H. Savory's remarkable flashlight photographs of the Mendip caves and some of 

 Mr. Amos's views of the Dover cliffs. Prof. Cox sends copies of photographs illustrating 

 his papers on the geology of Cader Idris, and the Abereiddj' and Abercastle districts 

 of Pembrokeshire. These were taken by Mr. N. G. Blackwell. 



The negatives of the published series of geological photographs which had been 

 missing since before the war have fortunately been recovered, and prints and lantern 

 shdes are obtainable through the Secretary at the following rates : — - 



