Reviews — Geological Photographs. 611 



The estimates on which the Sub-Committee worked proved to 

 iiave been well founded, and the balance-sheet gives an account 

 of all receipts and expenditure to date. It shows a balance in. 

 favour of the Committee of £95 13s. 2d., and a prospective profit 

 of over £130 when all outstanding accounts shall have been paid. 



The balance-sheet, however, does not make one important point 

 clear. Eight whole-plate platinotypes and twelve slides beyond the 

 number agreed upon have been issued to subscribers. It is estimated 

 that these additional photographs have cost £105. If this be added 

 to the balance in hand the total profit has been £235, of which 

 one-half has been returned to the subscribers and the other half 

 retained by the Committee for the purpose of carrying on the work 

 for which it was originally established by the Association. 



It was pointed out in the Report for last year that in its fifteen 

 years' work of collecting and storing photographs, the Committee 

 had spent £101 10s. of the £130 granted to it by the Association. 

 In making a clear profit of £130 the Committee may congratulate 

 itself on having ''earned its keep," and perhaps it is the only 

 Committee of the Association which has ever succeeded in literally 

 doing so. But, besides this, by scattering broadcast over the world 

 typical photographs of geological features and phenomena it has 

 rendered a service to geological, and perhaps to geographical, teaching 

 which cannot be well over-estimated. The British Association 

 photographs are forming the nucleus of dozens of teaching collections 

 in the universities, schools, and museums of Britain; and numerous 

 foreign subscribers write that they are only unable to subscribe to 

 a second series because they now want the funds to accumulate 

 other examples from their own countries. It is not so difficult to 

 obtain geological photographs as it was fifteen years ago, for even 

 the ubiquitous picture postcard is sometimes frankly geological. 



About 100 intending subscribers to a new series have sent in 

 their names, and the Committee recommend that such a new series 

 be undertaken on the same terms as the last. With the smaller 

 number of subscribers, however, the margin is narrow, and while 

 profit to the Committee will be small, or absent, the subscribers will 

 have to be content with the "contract number" of photographs. 

 Possibly the number of subscribers will increase when it is known 

 that the new series will be actually carried out. 



Such a series will naturally be complete in itself, but it will also 

 be supplementary to the first series, and in no way a repetition of it. 

 The Committee would most warmly welcome any suggestions from 

 subscribers and others as to the best points to be considered in the 

 new series. 



Examples of the published series of photographs were shown at 

 the Exhibition arranged by the Geographical Association in London 

 and the provinces this year. Another set was sent by request to the 

 Exhibition at St. Louis, and it is proposed to present this collection 

 to the Geographical and Geological Department at Harvard University 

 when the Exhibition closes. To this set a gold medal in Group 16 

 has been awarded. 



