§ SIR H. VIVIAN (Swansea, District)I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether, in view of the great importance of the South Wales and Monmouthshire coal field, and the fact that the coal fields of Durham, Northumberland, Yorkshire, and Lancashire have been for the most part geologically surveyed on the 6-ineh scale, he will give directions that the geological survey of the mineral districts of South Wales 1820 and Monmouthshire shall be immedi ately taken in hand and vigorously prosecuted on that scale?
§ SIR W. HART DYKEI am in communication with the Director of the Geological Survey on the subject, and if the hon. Member will postpone his question for a few days I shall be in a position to afford him full information.