Excerpt from The Water Supply of England and Wales: Its Geology, Underground Circulation, Surface Distribution, and Statistics MY attention was forcibly drawn in 1873 to the direct rela tion of the varying character of water to the geological formations through, or over, which it flows, when I was assisting in classifying, according to the geological position of their source, the analyses of potable waters made by the Royal Rivers Pollution Commission, published in their Sixth Report. In the following year the British Association appointed a Committee of Inquiry into the Underground Circulation of Water, with Professor Hull, as Chair man, and myself as Secretary; and from that time I have been continually investigating this part of the subject. In 1878, the Council of the Society of Arts, at the request of their President, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, convened a Congress to consider the question of Water Supply. To this Congress, and the succeeding Congress of 1879, I was invited by the Council to contribute; and the Papers I then read, combined with the Lectures. On Water Supply which I gave to the Wigan Mining School in 1876, form the basis of the present work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.