196 Eminent Living Geologists— 



Congress in Stockholm and took part in an expedition to Spitzbergen. 

 Three years later he attended the same Congress at Toronto as 

 delegate from the British Government and as representative of the 

 Geological Society and the Geological Survey. He was elected a Yice- 

 President of the Congress, and received the honorary degree of LL.D. 

 at the University of Toronto. On this occasion he took part in an 

 excursion through New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Dr. Strahan 

 was made a member of the Royal Commission on Coal Supply in 

 1903 and furnished the Report on the Lancashire and Cheshire coal 

 areas and on the concealed coal-fields of England and Wales (apart 

 from the Midlands). In the same year he made a report to the Royal 

 Commission on Arsenical Poisoning. 



Out of the long list of famous British geologists who, by their 

 labours in the past century, have so largely contributed to the 

 building up of our science, a great part of them will also be found to 

 have had a share in the making of the Geological Survey of this 

 country. The present Director, Dr. Aubrey Strahan, must feel much 

 gratification that in this task he also has contributed no mean share, 

 both in the completion of its cartography and its numerous published 

 memoirs, whilst as our leading authority on the great and important 

 subject of the economics of our coal-fields he has made for himself 

 a special name. He has carefully carried on his geological studies 

 both at home and abroad, and possesses the experience won by long 

 service and extended observation. But for the present sad war, 

 which has disarranged all our peaceful enterprises, much attention 

 would have been given at the present time by the Government to the 

 anxious ' question of the hour', the extent and duration of our coal- 

 supply. 



We may sincerely congratulate the staff of the Geological Survey 

 that in their present Director they have a man who has achieved his 

 position by long years of earnest labour, and who is thoroughly 

 conversant with their work and in sympathy with themselves. 



List of Geological Survey Memoirs and Publications 

 by Dr. Aubrey Strahan, M.A., F.B.S. 



1881. Geology of Chester. 



Geology of Prescot : by E. Hull; third edition, with additions by 

 A. Strahan. 

 1885. Geology of Bhyl, Abergele, and Colwyn. 



1887. Geology of North Derbyshire : by A. H. Green and others ; second 



edition by A. H. Green and A. Strahan. 



1888. Geology of Kendal, Sedbergh, Bowness, and Tebay : by W. T. Aveline 



and T. McK. Hughes ; second edition, revised and enlarged, by 

 A. Strahan. 

 Geology of the Country around Lincoln : edited and in part written by 

 A. Strahan. 



1889. Geology of the Isle of Wight : by H. W. Bristow ; second edition, revised 



and enlarged, by C. Beid and A. Strahan. 



1890. Geology of Flint, Mold, and Buthin. 



Geology of the Country around Ingleborough : edited and in part written 

 by A. Strahan. 



1891. Geology of Mallerstang : edited and in part written by A. Strahan. 

 1898. Geology of the Isle of Purbeck and Weymouth. 



Supplement to the Memoirs on the Geology of Flint, Mold, and Buthin. 



