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OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY. 
clay, gravel, or sand, in which they were found, distinctly 
noted—a precaution upon which their value almost entirely 
depends—-and will send them to the Society, accompanied by 
any remarks which may occur, on the position of the bed, 
and the character of other beds lying above or below it, he 
will confer a favour on the Institution, and contribute 
materially to the advancement of knowledge. 
Proprietors of land, whose enlightened views have led them 
to procure geological surveys of their estates, may greatly 
benefit the cause of Science, by communicating documents 
relative to the portions of the Strata thus examined; and the 
Society is anxious to invite the correspondence both of 
Surveyors and of Miners, and to obtain the assistance which 
they are so capable of lending to its objects; par¬ 
ticularly by noticing those points of junction, where 
different kinds of rock or other beds come in contact with 
each other, and by furnishing Sections of the Strata, as 
they are laid open, in some parts, naturally by rivers or the 
sea, and, in others, presented artificially by quarries, wells, 
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or mines. 
These indeed are minute details; but with such minutiae 
great practical utility is both immediately and remotely 
connected : from such minutiae the knowledge of the Earth’s 
structure is to be deduced, and a Science hereafter to be raised, 
which may lead to conclusions as important, perhaps, as any of 
thosewhich have been so happily derived from the other parts 
of Natural Philosophy. 
