THE 



GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE 



NEW SERIES. DECADE VI. VOL. VI. 



No. IX.— SEPTEMBER, 1919. 



EDITOEIAL UOTES. 



AMONGST the long list of deferred Birthday Honours is that of 

 a Knighthood to the well-known geologist (who has attained 

 his 81st year), William Boyd Dawkins, M.A., D.Sc. (Oxford), Hon. 

 D.Sc. (Man.), F.H.S., F.S.A., F.G.S., M.Inst. M.E., Assoc. Inst. C.E., 

 Hon. Professor of Geology and Palaeontology in the Victoria 

 University, Manchester. Professor Boyd Dawkins is one of the few 

 surviving geologists who, with Sir A. Geikie, Sir Bay Lankester, 

 and Dr. Henry AVoodward, assisted in giving birth to the first 

 number of the Geological Magazine on July 1, 1864, fifty-five years 

 ago. "We offer Sir William Boyd Dawkins our heartiest congratula- 

 tions on this latest distinction conferred upon him by the King. 

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As a result of recent great developments in the Departments of 

 Geology and Geography at Cambridge several new appointments 

 have been made. In view of the recent establishment of a Geography 

 Tripos, and in order to provide a single responsible head for the 

 department, the General Board of Studies have recommended the 

 establishment of a lloyal Geographical Society Beadership in 

 Geography, to which it is proposed to appoint P. Lake, M.A., of 

 St. John's College, hitherto lloyal Geographical Society University 

 Lecturer in Begional and Physical Geography. This latter lecture- 

 ship is to be suspended for the present. F. Debenham, of 

 Gonville and Caius College, has also been appointed lloyal 

 Geographical Society University Lecturer in Surveying and 

 Cartographj*. It is to be noted that both these gentlemen are well- 

 known geologists. In the Department of Geology a new University 

 Lectureship in Economic Geology has been created, to which 

 B. H. Bastall, M.A., of Christ's College, has been elected. The 

 Woodwardian Professor has chosen as his assistant T. C. Nicholas, 

 O.B.E., M.C., M.A., of Trinity College, while the new Demonstrator 

 in Petrology is J. M. Wordie, M.A., of St. John's College. 



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 Eaely in August it was announced that the Government have 

 appointed a Departmental Committee to inquire into the present 

 position of the non-ferrous mining industry in this country. This is 

 a subject on which a great deal has been written in the technical 

 and general press, and there can be no doubt that the changed 



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