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From the Preface to the Fifth Edition. The object of the following pages is to give a general account of the geology of London and the surrounding country, without entering into particulars of the various sections and other details, which have either been already published by the Geological Survey, or will be given in a future Memoir on the Drifts of the London Basin. Originally planned as an illustration of the Geological Model of London, in the Museum at Jermyn Street, which was constructed under my superintendence during the years 1872 and 1873, this sketch has been extended so as to form a general explanation of the large Map of London and its Environs published by the Geological Survey. Though the accumulated knowledge of many observers is drawn upon, yet references to authors who have written on the geology of the district have been avoided, having been fully given elsewhere (Geological Survey Memoirs, vol. 4), and it being undesirable to burden a sketch such as this with footnotes. The aim of this essay is, in fact, to give those interested in the subject an account of all the beds that occur in and near the metropolitan area, leaving those who may wish to study them thoroughly, and the inquirers who want detailed information on particular subjects, to refer to more elaborate works. This will serve, therefore, as an introduction to the severer study of London geology, and may be taken as a summary thereof by those who have neither time nor wish to make one for themselves. The chief points in which this edition differs from the last are in the section on the Range of Old Rocks underground, in which there are additions and an enlargement of the table, and in the addition of the Harefield section to the plate at the end. William Whitaker. Geological Survey Office, November 1889.

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