THE 



GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE 



NEW SERIES. DECADE VI. VOL. VI.. 



No. V.— MAY, 1919. 





EDITOEIAL NOTES. 



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AS will be seen from the official report reprinted elsewhere in this 

 issue, the Geological Society has decided at a Special General 

 Meeting to admit women as Fellows. It was generally believed 

 that the result was a foregone conclusion, and the figures of the 

 ballot indicate that this belief was justified. As the President 

 pointed out in his opening remarks, the Society has in the past 

 pursued a rather hesitating policy with regard to this matter, and it 

 is satisfactory to find that a clear and definite decision has at last 

 been made on a motion initiated by the Council. The work done in 

 the past by a number of women geologists has been of a high order 

 of merit, and the recognition of its worth will doubtless stimulate 

 others to follow in similar paths and even to surpass the achieve- 

 ments of the pioneers. Ere long we shall doubtless see ladies 

 occupying seats on the Council and possibly even the presidential 

 chair. 



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 We have much pleasure in calling special attention to the paper 

 appearing in this number of the Magazine under, the title of 

 "Foliation and Metamorphism in Rocks". In this Professor 

 Bonney gives a summary of the conclusions reached by him after 

 an almost lifelong study of the subject both in the field and in the 

 laboratory. It so happens that Professor Bonney's active geological 

 life nearly synchronizes with the existence of microscopic petrology ; 

 he was one of the pioneers in this field and has had unrivalled 

 opportunities of examining the gneissose and schistose rocks of many 

 parts of the world, and especially those of the Alps. Again, he has 

 devoted much attention to the origin of serpentine and cognate 

 questions, both in Britain and abroad, with important results. 

 Among other achievements Professor Bonney was one of the band 

 of geologists who set British stratigraphy free from the incubus of 

 " altered Silurian", and assisted to exorcise many other bogeys 

 surviving from an earlier day. We feel sure that our readers will 

 welcome this summary of the conclusions reached by one of the 

 masters of petrology after nearly half a century of research, all the 

 more because the observations on which the results are founded are 

 entirely first-hand and independent of textbooks or preconceived 

 ideas of any kind. 



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