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to chemists, metallurgists, and naturalists, I have only to re- 
mind my audience that this School of Mines which, owing its 
origin to Sir Henry De la Beche, has furnished our Colonies 
with some of the most accomplished geological and mining sur- 
~ veyors, and many a manufacturer at home with good chemists 
and metallurgists, has now for its lecturers men of such emi- 
nence that the names of Hoffman, Perey, Warington Smyth, 
Willis, Ramsay, Huxley, and Tyndall are alone an earnest of our 
future success. 
In terminating these few allusions to the Geological Survey, 
and its applications, I gladly seize the opportuuity of recording, 
that in the days of our founder, Sir Henry De la Beche, our insti- 
tution was greatly benefitted in possessing, for some years, as 
one of its leading surveyors, such an accomplished naturalist 
and skillful geologist, as the beloved Assistant General Secre- 
tary of the British Association, Professor Phillips, who by his 
labors threw much new light on the paleontology of Devonshire, 
who, in the Memoirs of the Survey, has contributed an admira- 
ble Monograph on the Silurian and other rocks around the Mal- 
vern hills and who, by his lectures and writings, is now con- 
stantly advancing geological science in the oldest of our British 
universities. 
ere is yet one subject connected with the Geological Sur- 
vey to which I must also call your attention, viz., the Mineral 
Statistics of the United Kingdom, as compiled with great care 
and ability by Mr. Robert Hunt, the Keeper of the Mining — 
Records, and published annually in the Memoirs of our estab- 
lishment. 
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Coals is estimated at £26,993,573, and that of Metals (the pro- 
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duce of the above minerals) and Coals at £37,121,8 
_ When we turn from the consideration of the home survey to 
that of the Geological Surveys in numerous colonies of 
