GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE 



NEW SERIES. DECADE VI. VOL. VI. ,y 



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No. IV.— APEIL, 1919. 



EDITORIAL 3STOTES. 



rHHE Editors of the Geological Magazine desire to take this 

 JL opportunity of thanking: their friends and subscribers for the 

 kindly expressions of good-will and promises of practical support that 

 have followed the issue of the circular sent out with the December 

 Number. They also wish to say that it is their hope and intention 

 to make the Magazine of service to the geological world as a vehicle 

 for the publication of original work, also as a review of the progress 

 of the science and a means of intercommunication between fellow- 

 workers in different parts of the world. In furtherance of this 

 latter object, they appeal especially to geologists in the British 

 Dominions beyond the seas and in foreign countries to continue to 

 send copies of their publications for review. Asa matter of fact, 

 a large number of such publications are actually received, but it is 

 feared that in the last three or four years a good many more never 

 reached their destination. It is certain that a free interchange of 

 ideas between widely separated parts of the world is one of the 

 surest ways of forwarding the progress of knowledge. Geologists in 

 the less developed countries where " fresh fields and pastures new " 

 are constantly turning up, enjoy many opportunities denied to those in 

 regions where field-work and mining investigations have been carried 

 on for over a century and where the great fundamental principles 

 of our science have long been applied and geological features mostly 

 worked out. In new countries geologists and explorers also 

 develop their own theories and represent fresh phases of thought, 

 which should be disseminated as widely as possible for the benefit 

 of mankind at large. The Editors trust that their readers will 

 assist them in their ambition to help in the spreading of new light 

 in the geological world. 



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The Annual General Meeting of the Geological Society of London 

 took place on Friday, February 21, when the medals and awards 

 were handed to the recipients, whose names have already been 

 announced in this Magazine. A portrait of Dr. Henry Woodward, 

 F. U.S.,. painted by Miss Lancaster Lucas, was formally accepted 

 as a gift to the Society. The President also delivered his 

 annual address, the subject chosen being "The Structure of the 

 Weald and Analogous Tracts". It was pointed out how deep 

 borings have shown that the Wealden anticline is a superficial 

 phenomenon imposed on a huge wedge of Jurassic and Lower 

 Cretaceous rocks forming a deep syncline : the accumulation of the 

 Mesozoic sediments took place in a gradually deepening trough with 



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