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memoranda as these -would give to the geological student the clues 

 to the landscape contours of the whole district. How much can be 

 done by ajDproaching the study of geology on its picturesque sidei s 

 well shown in that remarkable volume of Mr. Euskin's Modern 

 Painters, entitled "The Mountain Glory," a work we were pleased 

 to see alluded to in Mr. Whitakers "Memoir." It seems to us that 

 those who seek to educate the eye by the observation of land con- 

 tours are possessing themselves of the great principles of geology 

 by the true inductive process. Why physical geography is not 

 taught in field classes in our great public schools as the natural 

 introduction to the study of geology is one of the mysteries of our 

 present system of education. What could be a better change from 

 indoor school studies than the outdoor pleasures of tracing the history 

 of the local landscapes, as registered in the forms of the ground— the 

 pleasures of marking the effect of the meteorological forces, and the 

 tendency of each formation to weather into its own particular con- 

 tour or level of hill, valley, or plain ? Pferhaps the beginning of a 

 better state of things is being initiated by Prof. Eamsay's "Physical 

 Geology and Geography of Great Britain," and by the canstruction 

 of geological models of limited districts on a large scale. 



It only remains to be said that in this great work we have for the 

 first time, in the double form of map and model, and on a grand scale, 

 a complete representation of the superficial and solid geology of 

 London. The adoption of a horizontal scale of such magnitude as 

 six inches to the mile, instead of the toy-like dimensions of so many 

 models, cannot be too highly commended. It is not too much to say 

 that among those geologists who are indebted for all their facts to 

 original observation in the field, Mr. Whitaker is the only one who 

 could have undertaken such an. enterprise. The Jermyn Street 

 Museum now possesses a geological model of London which is 

 worthy af the subject and the Survey^ Its educational value is 

 simply inestimable. — Henry Walker. 



I^DS^'OK,TS JLisTZD :pieoc:B:E3i:msrc3-s. 



I. — British Association for the Advancement of Science. Forty- 

 THiRB Meeting, Bradford, September 18th — 24th, 1873. 

 Titles op Papers Eead or sent to be Eead in Section C 

 (Geology). 



President — Professor John Phillips, M.A., D.C.L. (Oxen.), LL.D., Camb. and 

 Dublin, F.E.S., F.G.S. 

 Inaugural Address by the President, Professor Phillips, F.E.S. 

 (Printed in extenso in October Number, Geol. Mag., 1873, p. 473.) 



A large Geological Map of the British Isles was presented to the British Association 

 by the Local Committee, and was exhibited in the room. 



H. Russell, C.E., F.G.8., S.M. Geological Survey — Geology of the Counlry around 



Bradford. 

 John Brigg. — Geological Sketch of Bradford and the Neighbourhood. 

 Rev. J. F. Blake, F.G.S. — Additional Eemains of Pleistocene Mammals in Yorkshire. 



