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London, say, through Middlesex, Hertford, Bedford, or Buckingham- 

 shire, he will turn up Map 2, and tracing his intended route will 

 easily note, by the colours and the numbers, the formations he will 

 travel over, and so will read with greater interest in the pages 

 devoted to each county (pp. 40-101) what are the features of 

 each, both physically and geologically ; or in the pages which follow 

 (pp. 102-134), after selecting his line of road or railway, he may 

 read what are the rocks and the kind of country he is about to 

 travel over. 



If travelling by road on bicycle or motor-car (or with knapsack 

 and on foot), he may stop a few minutes by roadside section or 

 quarry, or even by a heap of native stones picked off the land or 

 obtained from an excavation near by, and find here and there a fossil 

 which the plates of fossils (xxxv-1) will often enable him to identify. 

 All these details are full of interest to the inquiring and intelligent 

 student who wants to know the inside of things, and for teaching 

 him there is nothing like pictures and colours. The onl^r fear is 

 that such aids to intellectual improvement may be made too easy 

 and agreeable ; but though the full-fledged geologist may feel these 

 matters too simple, the less advanced inquirers, of whom there are 

 many, will certainly not be disappointed in the pleasure to be derived 

 from the companionship of this very useful little book. 



The original work, entitled '•' Eeynolds's Geological Atlas," which 

 gave the cue to the present volume, and now renamed "Stanford's 

 Geological Atlas," has a history, and has long been known and 

 regarded as a useful companion and guide to those journeying on 

 business or pleasure in Great Britain who take interest in the 

 geology of the country. The first edition, issued in 1860, was 

 prepared with the assistance of the late Professor John Morris, F.G.S. 

 (for 21 years one of the Editors of the Geological Magazine), and 

 the second edition, published in 1889, was revised by the late 

 Mr. Eobert Etheridge, F.E.S. L. & E., F.G.S. {also one of the 

 Editors of this journal from 1865 to the present year). 



The present volume has been carried out upon the general plan 

 of the older work ; the text has, however, been entirely rewritten 

 by Mr. Horace B. Woodward, F.R.S. Fuller descriptions of the 

 geological formations, with lists of localities for fossils, have been 

 given ; the particulars relating to each county have been amplified, 

 regard being paid to the more interesting geological facts, irrespective 

 of the size or industrial importance of the county, and notes on 

 seaside resorts have been appended. 



The descriptions of the geological features observable along the 

 main lines of railway is entirely a new feature. A few of the 

 original text illustrations are the same as in the earlier edition, the 

 others have been borrowed from Sir Andrew Ramsay's "Physical 

 Geology and Geography of Great Britain." 



The figures of fossils, forming sixteen double octavo plates, have 

 been reproduced chiefly from Lowrjf's " Tabular View of British 

 Fossils " and from his " Chart of Characteristic British Tertiary 

 Fossils " ; others have been taken from the " Chart of Fossil 



