Abstract
WHEN the staff of the Government Geological Survey first entered upon their labours, the Director, Sir H. de la Beche, saw very clearly that the work with which he was entrusted would be very imperfectly performed if he limited himself to the publication of geological maps and sections alone. He therefore gave orders that whenever from time to time sufficient portions of the country had been examined, descriptions of their geology should be issued, in which such details as could not be inserted on the maps should be recorded, and questions of theoretical and practical interest should be discussed. The Memoirs published in compliance with this regulation by Sir Henry himself and his coadjutors Phillips, Ramsay, Forbes, Hooker, Playfair, and others, are lasting witnesses both of the wisdom of the regulation itself and of the skill and energy with which the work of the Survey was carried on.
The Geology of the Northern Part of the English Lake District. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of England and Wales.
By J. C. Ward (London: Longmans, 1876.)
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G., A. The Geology of the Northern Part of the English Lake District Memoirs of the Geological Survey of England and Wales . Nature 15, 545–546 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/015545a0
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