THE GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 



THE Subscribers to the Geological Magazine and its many 

 Contributors throughout the British Empire and elsewhere 

 will, we feel sure, learn with satisfaction that their efforts to assist 

 the Editor anci his Publishers to carry on the journal in its long 

 and useful career — especially in regard to the difficulties which 

 have endangered its existence during the past four years of war — 

 have not been in vain, and that in entering upon this, the fifty- 

 fifth, year of its life its continuance for the present is assured. 



It may not be known to some of our Eeaders that owing to 

 paper shortage and the increased cost of production in printing, 

 etc., also the ever-growing strain upon the mental and physical 

 powers of your Editor, who is now in his 87th year, it was feared 

 that the Magazine would have to terminate with the current 

 number. Happily, by the generosity of Subscribers and 

 Publishers, this fate has been averted, and your Editor's labours 

 will be eased by the valuable aid of his friend Mr, Eobert Heron 

 Eastall, M.A., F.G.S. (late Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge), 

 who has generously agreed to assist with the Magazine in the 

 capacity of Sub-Editor. Mr. Eastall is already well known to our 

 Eeaders by the numerous articles he has contributed to the 

 journal during the past few years, but it is probably not known 

 that he has also assisted your Editor in many ways over the 

 production of the Magazine. 



It now rests with our Contributors and Subscribers to do their 

 utmost in its support by securing valuable contributions from both 

 old and new writers, by increasing the circulation amongst those 

 interested in the subjects dealt with, and wherever they have 

 influence recommending it to be put on the list of journals taken 

 by Natural History Societies, Field Clubs, Public Libraries, and 

 Institutions. 



In thus asking his readers for renewed efforts on behalf of the 

 Gi^OLOGiCAL Magazine, your Editor feels sure that his friends 

 will forgive the anxiety of a parent for the existence of his 

 offs^Dring (for it was in 1864 that he produced the first numbers of 

 this journal), and it would be a great happiness to him to know 

 that, though he will i "^t be much jer here to see it, the 

 Geological Magazine will still'- b'- continuing its useful life 

 with renewed vigour. 



Henry Woodward. 



December, 1918. 



On receipt of 24s., with the Subscriber's name and 

 address, Messrs. Dulau &: Co., 37 Soho Square, W. 1, will 

 forward the " Geological Magazine " monthly post free 

 for 1919. 



