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HENRY WOODWARD, LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., &c. 



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Professor J. W. GREGORY, D.Sc, F.R.S., F.G.S. 



Dr. GEORGE J. HINDE. F.R.S., F.G.S. 



Sir THOMAS H. HOLLAND, K.C.I.E., A.R.C.S., D.Sc, F.R.S., F.G.S. 



Professor W. W. WATTS, Sc.D., M.Sc, F.R.S., "Vice-Prks. Geol. Soc. 



Dr. ARTHUR SMITH WOODWARD, F.R.S., F.L.S., Sec.Geol^ 



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I. Original Articles. Page 



EminentLivingGeologists : William 

 CaiTuthers, Hon. Phil. Dr. et A.M. 

 (Upsala), F.E.S.,F.L.S., F.G.S., 

 etc. (With a Portrait, Plate X.) 193 



Sedgwick Museum Notes : On 

 Dionide atra, Salter. By F. E. 

 CowPER Eeed, M.A., F.G.S. ' 

 (Plate XI.) 200 



Geology of Venezuela. By Leonard 

 V.Dalton.B.Sc. (Loncl.), F.G.S. 203 



The Eocks of the Western 

 Australian Goldfields. By J. 

 Allan Thomson, B.A., B.Sc, 

 F.G.S. (With tAYO Text-figures.) 

 {Concluded.) 210 



Some Handiworks of Early Men. 

 By the Eev. Osmond Fisher, 

 M.A., F.G.S. (With five Text- 

 figures.) 218 



The Buccal Plates in Echinocorys. 

 By Herbert L. Haweins, M.s'c. , 

 F.G.S. (With two Text-figures.) 222 



II. EE\'T[EWS. 



J. H. Collins : West of England 

 Mining Eegion ... 226 



Clement Eeid and others : Geology 

 of Tavistock and La,unceston . . . 227 



Eeviews (continued). Page 



G. W. Lamplugh and others : 

 Geology of Ollerton 229 



J. S. Olver: Faults and Dykes, 

 Witwatersrand 230 



Cambridge County Geographies ... 231 



A. J. Jukes-Browne's Students' 

 Handbook of Stratigxaphical 

 Geology 232 



A. B. Searle's History of Clay ... 233 



Professor S.H.Eeynolds' Excursions 

 for Bristol District 233 



Brief Notices : Geological Map of 

 Central Europe — Dr. F. H. 

 Hatch's Mineralogy (4th edition) 

 — Belemnitella mucronata Chalk, 

 Simbirsk — Map of Meekatharra, 

 W. Australia 234 



III. Eeports and Proceedings. 



Geological Society of London — 



February 28, 1912 23-5 



March 13 237 



Mineralogical Society, March 12 ... 238 



Zoological Society, March 19 ... 239 



IV. Correspondence. 

 ,T. Eeid Moir 



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