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great assistance we owe largely to the efiorts of our kind friends 

 and contributors, Dr. J. M. Clarke, of Albany, and Mr. P. E. 

 Raymond, of Harvard, to whom we hereby tender our hearty thanks. 

 It is events of this kind that encourage us to carry on in the hope 

 of promoting that worldwide exchange of geological thought 

 which we have so much at heart, and which we firmly believe to 

 be so beneficial to the science of geology in general and to individual 

 workers in particular. 



The Council of the Geological Society has this year awarded its 

 annual Medals and Funds as follows : The Wollaston Medal to 

 Professor Baron G. J. de Geer, of Stockholm, whose work is so well 

 known to all geologists, and especially to glacialists, as to need no 

 further reference here ; the Murchison Medal to Mrs. Shakespear, 

 formerly Miss E. M. Wood, the collaborator with Miss G. L. Elles 

 in their great work on graptolites and the author of many papers on 

 Palaeozoic stratigraphy ; the Lyell Medal to Mr. E. Greenly, whose 

 long awaited memoir on Anglesey we hope will soon see the light ; 

 the Wollaston Fund to Captain W. B. R. King, late of the Geological 

 Survey and now Assistant to the Woodwardian Professor at 

 Cambridge, whose geological work on the Western front has lately 

 been mentioned in our pages ; the Murchison Fund to Dr. D. 

 Woolacott, a recent and valued contributor to this Magazine, who 

 has specialized on the geology of North-Eastern England ; while 

 the Lyell Fund is divided between Dr. J. D. Falconer and Mr. E. S. 

 Pinfold, who have in recent years been working in Nigeria and 

 India respectively. 



At a recent sitting of the Non-Ferrous Mining Committee of the 

 Board of Trade some interesting evidence was given with regard 

 to the present position and prosjoects of lead and zinc mining in 

 the Halkyn district of Flintshire. Most of the mines in the district 

 have now been worked almost down to the level of the existing 

 drainage tunnel, and working below this is obviously impossible, 

 owing to the great volumes of water running through the Car- 

 boniferous limestone, as the writer can testify from recent experience 

 underground in that region. A large scheme is on foot for a drainage 

 tunnel at or near sea-level, which would unwater a considerable 

 additional depth of rich veins. Such an undertaking is as a rule too 

 large for any single company to tackle successfully, but there seems 

 to be no possible doubt that judicious co-operation assisted by a 

 subsidy from public funds would result in great developments in 

 this district, where the veins are undoubtedly very rich and mining 

 in the past has been very successful. The recent rise in the price 

 of the metals concerned foreshadows a promising future for this 

 interesting area, if the difficulties alluded to above can be success- 

 fully overcome, and there seems to be every possible reason why a 



