Author: Geologists' Association

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-02

Total Pages: 590

ISBN-13: 9781330561096

Excerpt from A Record of Excursions Made Between 1860 and 1890 The task of drawing up a Record of the Excursions of the Association was originally entrusted to Mr. Topley, whose many engagements, however, had prevented him from giving it any definite form when it was handed over to me. From him I learned that the excursions were to be arranged and edited so as to form a useful and handy guide to the geology of the places visited. The Record being primarily intended for the use of members (a decided majority of whom have joined the Association during the last ten years), it appeared to me that its character as a chronicle of past work and workers should not be forgotten. Accordingly every excursion down to the year 1890 has been mentioned separately, and where many reports of visits to the same locality exist I have either suppressed the shorter and retained the fuller, or have given from each account that which is not to be found elsewhere. This course seemed preferable to the compilation of one account from various reports on the following grounds. Visits to the most popular places have been seldom made except at intervals of, at least, five or six years. Consequently in their case we have to deal with the work of five or six different directors or reporters, and with descriptions of sections which must have varied very considerably during a quarter of a century or more. It seemed better, therefore, to avoid confusion by keeping each report separate, and each reporter responsible for his own account. Indeed, in but few cases is there much repetition, the later reporters usually omitting what has been fully described on some previous occasion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.