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GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE 



VOLUME LVII. 



No. I.— JANUARY, 1920. 

 EDITORIAL NOTES. 



"^l^E must begin the new year by congratulating ourselves that we 

 ' ' are alive at all. At one time the outlook was very unpromising, 

 but prospects are now a little brighter, mainly owing to the un- 

 remitting exertions of many kind friends, both known and unknown, 

 at home and abroad, to whom the Editors tender their hearty thanks 

 for encouragement and support in a time of need. However, we are 

 not yet out of the wood, and it is obvious that the strictest economy 

 will be necessary for some time to come. It may perhaps be well 

 to point out for the guidance of our contributors some ways in which 

 they can assist in the economy campaign. In the first place the cost 

 of production of plates is now inordinately high, and it may be as 

 well to state definitely that the Magazine cannot afford to publish 

 plates without at least a substantial contribution from the author. 

 We therefore ask our contributors to limit their demands in this 

 respect as much as possible. Again, corrections and alterations 

 in type are now very costly, and much money could be saved if all 

 manuscripts were sent in finally corrected. Occasional printer's 

 errors, though rare in our proofs, are not wholly avoidable, and as 

 to these there is nothing to be said. But it is the alterations of and 

 additions to the text in proof that make the printer's bills mount 

 up. We can assure our readers that with our present circulation 

 the monthly account for corrections is an important item in the 

 balance-sheet. 



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It may be permissible here to refer to one or two other matters 

 of internal politics. In the first place it will perhaps be noticed 

 that the present number is printed with a new fount of type, and that 

 the titles of papers have been made rather more bold and conspicuous. 

 Again, the former system of numbering the volumes by Series and 

 Decades has disappeared, having been found too cumbrous. The 

 volume for 1919 is numbered alternatively on the title-page Vol. LVI 

 of Whole Series, and the present one is Vol. LVII. In future 

 references in this Magazine to back numbers before 1919 will be given 

 by the year of pubhcation only, without Series or Decade. Most 

 people have their bound volumes lettered simply with the year, 

 and it requires a complicated arithmetical process to discover 



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