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Decade VI.— Vol. VI.— No. I. 



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Geological Magazine 



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THE GEOLOGIST. 



EDITED BY 



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iSSISTED BY 



Pkof. J. W. GREGORY, D.Sc, F.R.S. 

 SirT. H. HOLLAND, K.C.I E., D.Sc, F.R.S. 

 Prof. J. E. MARR, Sc.D., F.R.S. 



Sir JETHRO J. H. TEAL 

 Prof. W. W. WATTS 

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JANUARY, 1919. 



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CONTENTS :— 



I. Original Articles. Page 

 Eminent Living Geologists : Dr. 



Charles D. Walcott. (With a 



Portrait, Plate I.) 1 



The Progress of Mineralogy from 



1864 to 1918. By Dr. G. T. 



Prior, M.A., F.E.S 10 



A Mines Department for the United 



Kingdom 16 



The Interior of the Earth. By 



K. D. Oldham, F.E.S. , F.G.S.'. 18 

 Notes on Ammonites. — I. ByL.F. 



Spath, B.Sc, F.G.S 27 



II. Eeviews. 



Dr. Troedsson : Braehiopod Shales 

 of Scania 35 



Dr. Maury : Santo Domingo Fossils 36 



J. A. Bartrum : Concretions in 

 New Zealand 38 



Dr. F. H. Hatch : Jurassic Iron- 

 stones 38 



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Eeviews (continued). Page 

 E. Speight : Buried Forests, New- 

 Zealand 39 



III. Eeports and Proceedings. 



Geological Society of London 40 



Edinburgh Geological Society 42 



Wellington Philosophical Society, 



New Zealand 43 



IV. Correspondence. 



J. C.Brown 44 



Dr. E. F. Scharff 46 



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V. Obituary. 

 John Duer Irving 46 



VI. Miscellaneous. 



Preservation of Meteoric Irons 47 



Honorary Degree of M.A. for 

 Mr. F. W. Harmer, F.G.S 48 



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