THE 



GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE 



VOLUME LVII. 



No. III.— MARCH, 1920. 

 EDITORIAL NOTES. 



rpHE Annual Report of the Council of the Geological Society of 

 -*- London for 1919, presented at the Anniversary Meeting on 

 February 20, 1920, does not contain any very strildng features. 

 It is pleasing to observe that there has been a large increase in the 

 number of new Fellows elected, 81 as against 32 in 1918, and this in 

 spite of the increase of the annual contribution from two to three 

 guineas for Fellows elected after November 1, 1919. During the year 

 it was decided to admit women to the Society, but so far only fourteen 

 have availed themselves of the privilege. The list of medals and 

 awards has already appeared in the Magazine. The publication of 

 the Quarterly Journal has made up some of the leeway, and is 

 now only one year behind date, but the position of the annual 

 index of geological literature seems hopeless, the last issue being 

 that for the year 1912. The continuation of this most useful work 

 seems to be largely a matter of funds, and it is satisfactory to note 

 that the Royal Society has made a grant of £100 towards the 

 publication of the volume for 1913, which it is hoped will soon 

 appear, although its progress has naturally been delayed by the 

 resignation of the Librarian, Mr. C. P. Chatwin. The vacancy 

 thus created has been filled up by the appointment of Captain A. 

 Greig, formerly Assistant Librarian. It is disquieting to find that 

 the estimates anticipate a deficiency of £300 on the working of the 

 Society for the coming year, and geologists who have not yet done 

 so should a]D|)ly for admission as Fellows, and thus help this, the 

 leading geological society of the world, to maintain unimpaired 

 its great work in the interests of the science. 



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At the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, held 

 at Boston, officers for the year were elected as follows : President, 

 I. C. White, Morgantown, W. Va. ; First Vice-President, G. P. 

 Merrill, Washington, D.C. ; Second Vice-President, W. G. Miller, 

 Toronto ; Third Vice-President, F. B. Loomis, Amherst, Mass. 

 Many papers were read, and a discussion on the teaching of geology 

 attracted much attention. It is an interesting fact that during the 

 meeting two new societies were formed, with the full approval and 

 support of the parent organization. The Mineralogical Society, 

 formed at Cambridge, Mass., elected as its first President E. H. Kraus, 

 of Ann Arbor, and as Secretary H. P Whitlock, of the American 



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