Editorial. 



The George Huntington Williams Memorial Lectures were 

 fittingly inaugurated last month by the course of six lectures 

 delivered by Sir Archibald Geikie at the Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity. The establishment of this memorial is due to the generos- 

 ity of Mrs. George Huntington Williams, who provides in this 

 way for a series of lectures to be given by geologists from 

 various parts of the world on topics of interest to advanced 

 workers in geology. No more appropriate introduction to what 

 we hope may become a permanent source of inspiration to 

 living geologists, while it will be a perpetual memorial of Pro- 

 fessor Williams, could have been chosen than the subjects 

 selected by Sir Archibald Geikie for his lectures — The Found- 

 ers of Geology. Reviewing the beginnings of the science and 

 the ideas and conceptions of those early workers, he not only 

 presented a worthy introduction to a course which will deal 

 largely with modern views and advanced theories, but he placed 

 within easy reach of many a knowledge of ideas which may 

 have appeared as new to us, but which in reality presented 

 themselves to the earliest investigators. And in selecting an 

 historical subject he followed a line which would have been 

 most attractive to Professor Williams himself, and one in which 

 he was peculiarly successful. Those of us who were prevented 

 from hearing the lectures look forward to their publication with 

 great interest. 



Through the courtesy of the Governor of Maryland and of 

 other state ofificials, and through that of the presidents of the 

 railroads in the state, Professor Wm. B. Clark, the state geolo- 

 gist, was able to conduct several excursions into various parts of 



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