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THE PLACE OF GEOLOGY IN ECONOMICS AND 

 EDUCATION. 



By Prof. C. Lapwoeth, F.R.S. 



[Read December 13th, 1901.] 



Your distinguished and enthusiastic member, Professor 

 Herdman, wrote to me some months ago, giving me an 

 account of the aims and functions of this Biological 

 Society, and invited me to conie to Liverpool and give you 

 a " talk " upon some geological subject. This year I have 

 been exceptionally busy with extra duties and responsi- 

 bilities, and while I felt I could not possibly decline the 

 request so kindly conveyed, I begged my friends, Prof. 

 Herdman and Mr. Lomas, to defer my visit as long as 

 they possibly could, in the hope that I might find time 

 to prepare something more than a crude geological " talk," 

 but that I have found to be impossible. 



I learn from our Principal, Dr. Oliver Lodge — for the 

 gift of whom Birmingham University owes Liverpool an 

 especial debt of gratitude — that you are very desirous of 

 giving Geology its natural and proper position as one of 

 the great sciences taught to the Degree students in 

 Liverpool College, and that you hope to give the subject 

 eventually the dignity and status of a Professoriate. With 

 this movement I have naturally the deepest sympathy, 

 and shall be pleased to aid it by any means in my power. 



With this in my mind, I suggested to Prof. Herdman 

 that it might perhaps best accord with the wishes of the 

 Society if I spoke upon " The Place of Geology in 

 Education and Economics," and Prof. Herdman, in his 

 turn, being not only scientific but practical, hinted that in 



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