392 . EDITORIAL 



Maryland, which were attended by Sir Archibald Geikie and the 

 visiting geologists. They included an examination of the Cre- 

 taceous and Tertiary deposits along the Chesapeake Bay, the 

 coalfields of Alleghany county, the Silurian and Devonian for- 

 mations of the Appalachian district of the state, as well as the 

 Cambrian strata of the Blue Ridge, and the pre-Cambrian vol- 

 canic rocks of South Mountain. Opportunity was thus given to 

 become acquainted with the geological features of the state, 

 which were first brought into prominence by the investigations 

 of Professor Williams and his associates, and are now being fur- 

 ther developed by the workers on the state survey under the 

 direction of Professor Clark. 



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Sir Archibald Geikie, as Director General of the Geologi- 

 cal'Surveys of Great Britain and Ireland, was prevented by the 

 urgency of his duties at home from spending as long a time in 

 this country as his friends here would have wished. The hearti- 

 ness of his reception at those places he was able to visit may be 

 taken as a guarantee of the high esteem in which he is held 

 throughout the country. The hospitality shown him in Balti- 

 more was repeated in Washington, Philadelphia, New York, and 

 Brooklyn, in several of which places he delivered addresses. 

 The lectures at the Johns Hopkins University attracted geolo- 

 gists from widely distant parts of the country and were well 

 attended, and Mrs. Williams is to be congratulated upon so suc- 

 cessful an inauguration of the memorial lectureship, 



J. P. I. 



