§ MR. FIELDI beg to ask the President of the Board of Agriculture whether, in view of the fact that £9,000 per annum is granted for the support of the geological survey of England and Wales, and that the respective areas are England and Wales thirty-seven million acres, and Ireland twenty million acres, and seeing that instead of the £5,000 which Ireland should receive every year the average allowance for the past ten years has been under £2,500, this sum will be at once increased and supplemented by the balance due.
§ SIR J. GORSTNo; as the Government survey in Ireland has in the main been completed, whereas in England and Wales it has not, the sum required for England and Wales is necessarily larger than that required for Ireland.