Geology in Great Britain

Abstract

PART 1 of the “Summary of Progress of the Geological Survey of Great Britain” for 19331 contains - the usual annual reports of the Geological Survey Board i and of the director and gives particulars of routine \ work carried out during the year under review. As in the succeeding year, there was some slowing down of normal activities on account of the immense amount of additional work involved in preparation for the transfer of the collections to the new museum at South Kensington. Nevertheless, thirty-nine maps were issued, together with five memoirs, which, with one exception, have already been noticed in our columns (NATURE, 134, 782; 1934); the remaining one, the Merthyr Tydfil memoir7, is reviewed below. The old Museum of Practical Geology in Jermyn Street closed its doors to the public at the end of 1933. Sir John Flett contributes an interesting outline of its history from its opening in the year of the Great Exhibition of 1851 (see also NATURE, 134, 129; 1934).