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Progress of Geology. 17 
Geological Survey and Government School of Mines, Mineral 
Statistics and Colonial Surveys.—As I preside for the ‘first time 
over this Section since I was placed at the head of the Geologi- 
cal Survey of Britain, I may be excused for making an allusion 
to that national establishment, by stating that the public now 
take a lively interest in it, as proved by a largely increased de- 
mand for our gti and their illustrations—a demand which 
ni ‘I doubt not, be much augmented by the translation at an 
early day of many of our field- -surveyors from the southeastern 
and central parts of England, where they are now chiefly em- 
ployed, to those northern districts where they will be instru- 
mental in developing the superior mineral wealth of the region. 
[he Government School of Mines, an offshoot of the Geo- 
n trace no pedbed of the teachings o = Govern- 
ment School a Mines in the volumes of the British Associa- 
tion, and as I am convinced that the establishment only re- 
uires to be more widely known, in order to extend sound phys- 
ical knowledge not merely to miners and geologists, but also 
Am. Journ. Sc1.—Seconp Serres, VoL. XXXIII, No. 97.—Jan., 1862. 
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