THE 



GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE 



NEW SERIES. DECADE VI. VOL. , VI. 



Xo. VII.— JULY, 1919. ' J - 1920 



EDITORIAL 3STOTES. 



1N view of the interest aroused among geologists by the active 

 political and press propaganda now in progress concerning the 

 oil-borings in Derbyshire, it seemed advisable to publish forthwith 

 the paper by Mr. Y. C. Illing alluded to in our editorial last month. 

 To do this necessitated the postponement of the second half of the 

 paper on Potash by Dr. Holmes, begun in our June number, but 

 Dr. Holmes has kindly consented to give precedence to his colleague 

 in view of the urgency of the matter. Even by this arrangement 

 the traditional balance of the Magazine has been somewhat upset, 

 but the case is exceptional, and we do not intend to apologize for it. 

 Our only concession is to cut down the editorial pages to a considerable 

 extent, in order to prevent too much encroachment on the space 

 allotted to reviews. 



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We are glad to note the election of Professor 0. T. Jones, M. A., D.Sc, 

 to the Professorship of Geology in the University of Manchester. 

 Professor Jones graduated at Cambridge in 1902 and was subsequently 

 awarded the Harkness Scholarship and the Sedgwick Prize; in 1903 

 he joined the Geological Survey of England, on which he served with 

 distinction until 1910, when he was elected to the Professorship of 

 Geology at University College, Aberystwyth. During his tenure of 

 that chair he has discharged his duties with marked success and has 

 published important papers on the Lower Palaeozoic rocks of Wales. 

 We wish him a prosperous career in his new position, where he will 

 have increased opportunity to carry out geological work of various 

 kinds. 



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Notwithstanding the demands made by the War on the United 

 States National Museum, the report for the year ending June 30, 1918, 

 gives a record of much progress. Apart from the activities connected 

 directly with the War, such as the selection of suitable vesicular 

 rocks for use in the construction of concrete ships, the provision of 

 technical information to Intelligence Bureaux, and the satisfying 

 of demands from such State Departments as the Bureau of 

 Standards and the Department of Agriculture, much has been 

 accomplished for the Museum itself. In connexion with the 

 collection of minerals of importance for war materials, an exhibit 

 worthy of note is that of the largest mass of tungsten ore yet 

 mined — a mass of scheelite weighing 2,614 pounds. Another 

 notable addition is a collection of nearly ten thousand specimens 



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