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THE 



GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE 



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cftonthlj) Journal of (Seologn. 



■WITH WHICH IS INC0RP0RATK1) 



THE GEOLOG-IST. 



BDITEJ) BY 



HENRY WOODWARD, LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., &c. 



ASSISTED BY 



Professor J. W. GREGORY, D.Sc, F.R.S., F.G.S. 



Dr. GEORGE J. HINDE, F.R.S., F.G.S. 



Sir THOMAS H. HOLLAND, K.C.I.E , A.R.C.S., D.Sc, F.R.S., F.G.S. 



Professor W. W. WATTS, Sc.D., M.Sc, F.R.S., Pres. Geol. Soc. 



Dr. ARTHUR SMITH WOODWARD, F.R.S., F.L.S., Sec. Geol. Soc, and 



HORACE B. WOODWARD, F.R.S., F.G.S. 



JANUARY, 1911. 

 OODSTTZEHSTTS 



I. Orihinai. Articles. ' Fage 



The Gulf of Suez. By John Ball, 

 Ph.D., D.Sc, F.G.S., Geological 

 Survey of Egypt. (With Text-map 

 and Sections.) 1 



Some Basic Dykes and Problems of 

 Rock Genesis. By.F. P. Mennell, 

 F.G.S. (Plates I and II.) 10 



Glacier Motion. By R. M. Deelet, 

 M.Iust.C.E., F.G.S. ... ... 16 



A Landslip in the Isle of "Wight. 

 By R. H. Chandler. (With two 

 Text-figures.) 19 



Cirripedes from the Chalk of Salisbury. 

 By Thomas H. Withers, F.G.S. 

 (With eight Text-figures.) 21 



Nature's Bock-borings in the Fayum. 

 By H. J. Llewellyn Beadnell, 

 F^G.S 31 



II. Reviews. 

 Willis and Salisbury's Outlines of 



Geologic History 33 



Dr. J. V. Elsden's Chemical Geology 35 

 Professor Park's Geology of New 



Zealand 36 



Professor Schwarz's Causal Geology 38 



Dr. Ivor Thomas' British Orthotetinse 38 



Dr. Strahan's Guide to Ingleborouorh 39 



Reviews (continued). Page 



Brief Notices: Maryland Geological 

 Survey— Natural Resources of Mary- 

 land—Geology around Sheffield- 

 Cornish Palaeozoic Fossils — Rho- 

 desia Museum, Bulawayo — Mineral 

 Production of India'— Rivers — 

 River Action— Geological Map, of 

 Cape Colony — Geological . Survey 

 of Western Australia /.. : : .'. ... 40 

 III. Reports and Proceer^iOib.] fcj i 

 Geological Society of LorMon — 

 November 23, 1910 \. /;*/•.. 42 



December 7 -... ... 44. 



Mineralogical Society ""^ — 4&_- 



IV. Correspondence. 



Dr. F. A. Bather 45 



What? 46 



A. H. Bloomfleld 46 



T. Crook 47 



V. Obituary. 



Charles Bird, F.G.S 48 



Dr. W. H. Niles 48 



VI. Miscellaneous. 



University of Brussels 48 



University of Oxford : 48 



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