Excerpt from A Descriptive Guide to the Museum of Practical Geology: With Notices of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, the Royal School of Mines, and the Mining Record Office
As the Geological urvcy progressed, the Museum was rapidly extended. The original idea of a collection so practical in its cha reeter, and so peculiarly adapted to the wants of a great commercial and manufacturing community, being felt to be a correct and useful one, presents flowed in from persons interested in those particular branches of industry which it was intended to illustrate.
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