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JANUARY, 1905. 



OO nSTTE^STTS. 



I. Original Articles. i 



1. Eminent Living Geologists : 

 William Thomas Blanford, 

 CLE. , LL.D., F.E.S.,V.P.Z.S., 

 Treas.G.S. (With a Portrait, 

 Plate I.) 



2. The Formation of a Species. By 

 JoHfc Francis Walker, M.A., 

 F.L.S., F.G.S 



3. Eock Cavities in Granite of 

 Madagascar. By the Eev. E. 

 Baron, F.L.S., F.G.S 



4. Dolerite of Eowley Eegis and 

 Laterite of Bombay compared. 



By Dr. Hugh Warth 21 



II. Notices of Memoirs. 



1 . Eecent Discoveries of Vertebrates 



in Madagascar. By M. Standing 23 



2. The Ancestors of Mosasaurs ... 23 



3. The Mosasauria of Belgium ... 24 



4. The Origin of Mosasauria. By 



L. Dollo 24 



5. The Ehffitic Bone-bed. ByW. H. 

 Wickes 24 



6. The Kimeridgian in E. Prussia. 



By Dr. P. G. Krause 25 



7. Cretaceous Fossils, South Africa. 



By F. Chapman 25 



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Notices of Memoirs — continued, page 

 8. Geology of the Transvaal. By 



Dr. G. A. F. Molengraaff 26 



III. Eeviews. 



1. Geological Survey of Kingsbridge 

 and Salcombe. Bv W. A. E. 

 Ussher, F.G.S. ..'. 26 



2. Cretaceous Cephalopoda of Japan. 



By Dr. H. Yabe 37 



3. Geological Survey of Natal By 



W. Anderson, F.E.S.E., F.G.S. 39 



4. Tertiary Mollusca of Portugal. 

 By G F. Dollfus, J. C. B. 

 Cotter, and J. B. Gomes 41 



Eeports and Proceedings. 

 Geological Society of London — 



November 23rd, 1904 42 



December 7th 43 



2. Edinburgh Geological Society... 45 



3. Mineralogical Society of London 46 



4. Manchester Geologists' Associa- 

 tion 46 



V. Correspondence. 



1. Mr. J. G. Hamling 47 



2. Mr. G. C. Crick 47 



3. Professor T. G. Bonney 48 



VI. Obituary. 



Dr. G. V. Poore, F.E.C.P. ... 48 



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