The Collection, Preservation, and Systematic Registration of Photographs of Geological Interest in the United Kingdom.-Fifth Report of the Committee, consisting of Professor JAMES GEIKIE (Chairman), Professor T. G. BONNEY, Dr. TEMPEST ANDERSON, Dr. VALENTINE BALL, Mr. JAMES E. BEDFORD, Professor W. BOYD DAWKINS, Mr. EDMUND J. GARWOOD, Mr. J. G. GOODCHILD, Mr. WILLIAM GRAY, Mr. ROBERT KIDSTON, Mr. ARTHUR S. REID, Mr. J. J. H. TEALL, Mr. R. H. TIDDEMAN, Mr. W. W. WATTS, Mr. HORACE B. WOODWARD, and Mr. OSMUND W. JEFFS (Secretary). (Dran up by the Secretary.) SINCE the last Report, presented at the Nottingham meeting of the Association, your Committee have been enabled to add 215 photographs to their collection, which has now reached a total of 1,055. This number, again, shows a gratifying increase as compared with the two previous years. The majority of these were, however, received late in the year, and it has been found impossible to have them all arranged for exhibition before the date of the opening meeting at Oxford. Your Committee, therefore, respectfully suggest reappointment for another year at least, in order to enable a complete and revised catalogue to be drawn up, which would be more valuable for reference than the partial lists appearing in the various annual reports. During the next year it is hoped that societies who have been for some time engaged in the work of systematic photography of geological sections in their districts, but have not yet sent in the results obtained, will be able to make further progress with the work and enable the Committee to make their own collection more complete. The collection has now assumed such proportions that a rearrangement of a more systematic character than has hitherto been possible has become necessary, and with the additions that are expected from various sources this rearrangement in suitable albums and cases, duly indexed, will occupy some time. The question of the location of the large number of photographs now obtained has received the serious attention of the Committee, and they have recommended to the Council that the collection be deposited at the Museum of Practical Geology, London, where, in their opinion, it would be most accessible to the general public for purposes of reference. At a meeting of the Committee held during the Nottingham meeting several matters were discussed bearing upon the furtherance of the objects for which the Committee were appointed. The various local societies have been again urged, by circular, to assist the scheme of the Committee with the object of completing a national collection of photographs, to serve as a photographic survey of the geology of our own country. The Committee, having invited the views of members who are practical photographers as to the most suitable form of camera for geological field work, beg to tender their thanks to Drs. Tempest Anderson and H. J. Johnston-Lavis, and to Messrs. Wilbert Goodchild, A. R. Hunt, C. Defieux, and F. N. Eaton for suggestions and assistance rendered. It still appears to be difficult to recommend a particular form of instrument, as almost every photographer has his own favourite camera, and the apparatus required varies with the class of work to be undertaken in the field. It is proposed, however, to give in the next Report some hints which may be of use to those engaged in photographing rocks and other geological features. Among the donations of photographs added to the collection during the past year are several of great scientific value as illustrations of geological interest. The Committee desire to record their obligations to the following donors of photographs :-The Belfast Naturalists' Field Club, Croydon Natural History and Microscopical Society, Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society, the Manchester Geographical Society, and the Perthshire Society of Natural Science; Miss Mary K. Andrews, Dr. Valentine Ball, Messrs. F. J. Allen, W. H. Alexander, Montagu Browne, R. G. Brook, Henry Coates, F. N. Eaton, H. D. Gower, Wm. Gray, Wilbert Goodchild, E. J. Garwood, W. Lamont Howie, H. L. P. Lowe, J. G. McDakin, G. A. Piquet, H. Preston, C. J. Watson, and R. Welch. The Belfast Naturalists' Field Club have contributed an exceedingly valuable series of photographs illustrating the Antrim chalks and basalts, together with some fine examples of marine denudation. The extensive series of whole-plate prints, taken by Messrs. J. Burton and Sons for the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society (for which the Committee are indebted to the good offices of Mr. Montagu Browne), afford some characteristic examples of the advantageous application of photography to geological illustration. The following suggestions have been received as to suitable sections, &c., of which photographs are desirable, and the Committee hope that some photographer in the localities mentioned will be able to undertake the work :- Mr. H. C. BEASLEY (Hon. Sec. Liverpool Geological Society). Section in quarry (50 feet) between Rednall and Kendall End, Lickey Hills, showing fault with contortions in the Lickey quartzite. Dr. C. CALLAWAY, F.G.S. (Wellington, Salop). Section of Uriconian tuffs and conglomerates in large quarry at Lawrence Hill at the foot of the Wrekin, two miles from the railway station, Wellington, Shropshire. Section of Longmyndian conglomerate by the side of the road at Bagston Hill, two miles south of Shrewsbury. Section of May Hill Sandstone resting unconformably upon Lower Ordovician rocks at Hope, two miles from Minsterley Station, Shropshire. Section of contorted Ordovician strata at Hope, near Minsterley. Section of passage beds between Wenlock limestone and Wenlock shale, on the road from Wenlock down to Harley, about one mile from Wenlock. Section of basal Carboniferous beds resting on Wenlock shale in road called Jigger's Bank, about a mile from Coalbrookdale Station, Shropshire. Sections of waterstones (Lower Keuper), with perhaps slabs of footprints of Rhynchosaurus, at Grinshill, near Yarton Station, Shropshire. Sections of glacial sands at Ketley, one mile from Wellington, Shropshire. IRELAND. Near Londonderry. West of the B of Burnfoot' on the one-inch Ordnance map. Quarry. Grit and black schist contorted. Near Buncrana. On shore near Ned's Point. thrust. Between Buncrana and Fahan, near Fahan. crushing and contortion. Examples of contortion and over On the shore. Fine examples of Galway town. East of town, on shore. Gneisses seen in crag sections. Very curious, made by fragments of hornblende rock in granite. Lisoughter, Western Galway. Ophicalcite quarries. Glendalough, ditto. South of the hotel. Crags showing granite running along joints of diorite. Mr. J. W. WOODALL, F.G.S. (St. Nicholas House, Scarborough), suggests the desirability of having photographs taken of the series of sections on the Yorkshire coast from Redcar to Flamborough Head, and will be glad to give assistance to photographers. The following table shows the number of photographs registered since the issue of the Report for 1893 : NOTE-This list contains the subjects of geological photographs, copies of which have been received by the Secretary of the Committee since the publication of the last Report. Photographers are asked to affix to their negatives the registered numbers, as given below, for convenience of future reference. Copies of photographs desired, and, in many cases, lantern slides, can usually be obtained either from the photographer direct or from the officers of the local society under whose auspices the views were taken. The price at which prints or lantern slides may be obtained depends upon local circumstances, over which the Committee have no control. The Committee find it necessary to reiterate the fact that they do not assume the copyright of any photographs included in this list. Inquiries respecting them, and applications for permission to reproduce photographs, should not be addressed to the Committee, but to the photographer direct. [Enlargements are marked (E.)] · ENGLAND AND WALES. CUMBERLAND. Photographed by WILBERT GOODCHILD, 2 Dalhousie Terrace, Edinburgh. Size 6 x 4 inches. Photographed by R. G. BROOK, St. Helens. Size 8 x 6 inches. 887-888 Llandulas, near Abergele. Panorama of limestone quarries 889 Pistill Rhaiadr. Waterfall DERBYSHIRE. Photographed by HARRY SOWERBUTTS, Manchester Geographical Society. (Per ELI SOWERBUTTS, F.R.G.S.) Size 6 x 4 inches. Photographed by H. L. P. Lowe, Shirenewton Hall, Chepstow. 879 Chepstow . Size 6×4 inches. Anticlinal in Carboniferous limestone ΚΕΝΤ. Photographed by Captain J. G. McDAKIN, 15 Esplanade, Dover. LEICESTERSHIRE. Photographed by J. BURTON & SONS, Leicester, for the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society. (Per MONTAGU BROWNE, F.Z.S.) Size 12 x 10 inches. Lantern slides can be obtained. 945-946 Woodhouse Eaves, Ring Slates, showing concentric rings Photographed by C. J. WATSON, Acock's Green, Birmingham. 850 Barmouth. Size 6 x 4 inches. Glacial groovings on Cambrian strata MONMOUTH. Photographed by H. L. P. Lowe, Shirenewton Hall, Chepstow. 878 Crich Road, Shirenewton. Jointing and weathering of rocks NORFOLK. Photographed by H. PRESTON. (Per H. W. WOODWARD, F.G.S.) 883 Sherringham Contorted glacial drift 884 Thorpe Crag, near Norwich Norwich Crag on Chalk NORTHUMBERLAND. Photographed by E. J. GARWOOD, Newcastle-on-Tyne. |