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You have within easy reach of Liverpool City some of 

 the finest exhibitions of Post-Tertiary geological deposits 

 in the British Islands. The glacial deposits of Lancashire 

 and Cheshire, as Mr. Mellard Reade and Mr. Lomas have 

 shown, are crowded with geological problems yet awaiting 

 solution. Your Triassic rocks, in spite of all the excellent 

 work my old friend, Mr. Morton, did amongst them, are 

 rich in problems equally mysterious and fascinating. The 

 wonderful series of dislocations which have brought about 

 and fixed the site of the great Dee-Mersey depression, 

 which constitutes the very foundation of the wealth and 

 prosperity of Liverpool itself, are still unsystematised and 

 still unexplained. You are within easy reach of the coal- 

 fields of Lancashire and Flint, and it is yours to discover 

 the hidden places of the Cheshire coalfields that probably 

 lie to-day deeply buried below the barren red rocks 

 between, awaiting the progress of geological research to 

 render them available for the use of future generations. 

 The lovely Palaeozoic districts of North Wales, the Isle of 

 Man and the Lake District itself are within the limits 

 almost of a day's excursion. With all such advantages of 

 position, and with all the daily growing appreciation of 

 the economic and the intellectual benefits of the science, 

 surely it is not too much to hope that a vigorous and 

 successful career is before your Geological School. 



But after all, success or failure does not so much depend 

 upon the utility of a science, either economically or 

 intellectually, as upon the enthusiasm of its teachers and 

 its votaries. That enthusiasm is, indeed, whether confined 

 to the individual or communicable to others, its own great 

 and excellent reward. ±\ov even should we complain if 

 among our geological students we have many who decline 

 to submit to the yoke of examination, and are consequently 

 unknown to the list of those bearing our University 



