96 Miscellaneous. 
to prevent the spread of knowledge obtained at great cost. One result 
of this decision is that the price of almost all the hand-coloured 
Geological Survey Maps (the vast majority of those published) has been 
raised, in some cases preposterously ; for instance, quarter-sheet 92 N.E., 
Pateley Bridge, is raised in price from 3s. to 14s. 3d., quarter-sheet 
81 S.E., Buxton, from 3s. to 8s. 3d. This means that while thousands 
of pounds are spent in geological surveying the results are inaccessible 
to the public except at an almost prohibitive price. It makes 
British geologists envy their friends in the United States, where the 
antediluvian hand-colouring is unknown, and a geological folio 
containing topographical geological economics, and structural map 
with explanation, can be bought for 25 cents (1s.). In Canada 
geological survey maps are supplied gratis to Canadians. I would 
gladly join in a memorial, or, if necessary, a deputation to the 
Chancellor of the Exchequer, to obtain we reversal of this penny-wise 
policy.—Yours sincerely, 
: Bernarp’ Hopson. 
Tapron EKims, SHEFFIELD. 
January 6, 1910. 
VEE S Cane d= ASIN EE @igis2 
——— 
GrotocicaL Sociery, 1910, Mepats anp Awarps.—The Council of 
the Geological Society have this year made the following awards: 
The Wollaston Medal to Professor W. B. Scott, of Princetown 
University; the Murchison Medal to Professor A. P. Coleman, of 
Toronto University; the Lyell Medal to Dr. Arthur Vaughan; the 
Wollaston Fund to Mr. E. B. Bailey; the Murchison Fund to 
Mr. J. W. Stather; and the Lyell Fund jointly to Mr. F. R. Cowper 
Reed and Dr. Robert Broom. 
Tar Grontocican Survey or Eeypr.—Dr. William Fraser Hume, 
Assoc. R.C.S. and Assoc.R.S.M., F.G.S., who has served for more than 
ten years as a Geologist on the Survey of Egypt, has now been 
appointed Director of the Geological Survey in the Public Works 
Department, Giza, Egypt. He has contributed many valuable papers 
\\on Egypt to the Gronoercan Magazine. 
Errata.—‘‘ Old Granites of the Transvaal and South and Central 
Adrica,2 ‘by C2 B: Horwood & A. WH Set iis authors request to be 
allowed to make the following art L (October, 
1909), p. 455, 1. 1, for ‘‘ Just over Dhaiee years ago”’ read ‘‘ Just over 
four years ago’ ‘On p . 458, 1. 11, for “chrom-iron” read ‘ chrome- 
iron”, In Part III (Detembde 1909), p. 543, 6th line down, after 
“the strike” add comma. On p. 546, 1. 33, for ‘further east ”? 
read ‘‘north-west from there”. On p. 546, l. 34, delete comma after 
“‘Gordonia’”’ and insert a comma after “ generally i 
