THE 



GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE 



NEW SERIES. DECADE VI. VOL. VI. 



No. XI.— NOVEMBER, 1919. 



EDITOEIAL NOTES. 



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true cause the remarkable lateness in appearance of the October 

 number of the Magazine. The reason, of course, was the railway- 

 strike, which upset the mails at the period of the month most critical 

 from the editorial point of view. One set of proofs took no less than 

 nine days in transit from printer to editor and after that had to be 

 sent to the authors and returned. Besides the delay, another 

 consequence followed, namely, that the final contents of the number 

 were not at all what the Editors originally designed them to be. 

 After much waiting for delayed proofs, it was finally decided to 

 make up the number from what material was ready, regardless of 

 the traditional plan; this accounts for the absence of any Reports 

 and Proceedings or Reviews in that number. It was hoped to give 

 abstracts of papers read at the British Association and a portion of 

 the Presidential Address to Section C, but fate willed otherwise and 

 the final result was a number almost entirely composed of original 

 papers, which is quite contrary to the usual practice. This 

 procedure will not, it is hoped, be taken as a precedent, and every 

 endeavour will be made in future to maintain the established features 

 of the Magazine, so far as the disturbed conditions of the time allow. 



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Hearty congratulations to Sir Norman Lockyer, X.C.B., F.R.S., who 

 on November 4 will, as editor, issue the " Jubilee " Number of 

 Nature, which he commenced in 1869. The Editor of the Geological 

 Magazine was present amongst his numerous friends at the "sending 

 off" dinner given by Mr. Macmillan, the publisher of this worldwide 

 serial, which will on November 4, 1919, issue its 2,600th weekly 

 number. This journal embraces in its pages information on every 

 branch of natural knowledge during the past half-century. Long 

 may Nature flourish, and may its editor and publisher still share the 

 continued prosperity of -this cosmopolitan and successful scientific 



weekly. 



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We feel sure that all those geologists who make use of the library of 

 the Geological Society will hear with much regret that Mr. C. P. 

 Chatwin has resigned his post as Librarian to the Society in 

 order to take up a teaching appointment at Liverpool University. 

 Mr. Chatwin came to Burlington House in May, 1913, and soon won 

 golden opinions in every quarter, both on account of his wide 



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