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Museum of Natural History, New York. The other new Society, 

 the Association of Applied Geologists, should do much to fill up 

 the gap that now exists between pure geology and the branches 

 of engineering and other sciences and arts bearing upon the 

 exploitation of our mineral resources. We wish both these new 

 societies a long and prosperous career. 



Many old Cambridge geologists both at home and abroad will be 

 glad to hear that the Sedgwick Club has entered on a career of 

 renewed activity after the inevitable jDeriod of eclipse, due to the 

 War. In the autumn of 1914 the few remaining ordinary members 

 held a meeting at which they appointed a committee, mostly com- 

 posed of members of the teaching staff, under the chairmanship of 

 the Woodwardian Professor, to hold office till the end of the War, 

 with powers to elect ordinary members. Last May term this com- 

 mittee exercised its powers by nominating sufficient new members 

 to form a quorum, and then extinguished itself. After this matters 

 proceeded in the ordinary way, and the Club is now as flourishing 

 as ever, or even more so, as shown by the following communique 

 received from an official source : " The Sedgwick Club has formed 

 a committee for directing and carrying out a detailed study of the 

 Pleistocene and Holocene deposits of the Cambridge district with 

 special reference to questions connected with Ancient Man in Britain. 

 Some years ago a similar committee of the Club studied the 

 distribution of the glacial boulders in the district. The enthusiasm 

 with which that work was carried out, and the interesting results 

 obtained, recorded in a paper by Messrs. Rastall and Romanes. 

 (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. Ixv, 1909, pp. 246-65) augur well 

 for the success of the present undertaking." 



With the opening of Parliament the question of the nationalization 

 of mines has again reached an acute stage, and appears likely to be 

 in the forefront of politics for some time to come. In the debate 

 on the Address the Prime Minister spoke words of solid wisdom, 

 and foreshadowed most determined opposition on the part of the 

 Government to the projects for bureaucratic control of our greatest 

 industry. We have already drawn attention in these columns to 

 the fallacies of the prevailing Fabian arguments in support 

 of nationalization of coal-mines. It is currently rejjorted that 

 labour witnesses before the Board of Trade Committee on non- 

 ferrous mining have spoken in favour of nationalization as a remedy 

 for the troubles of their own particular branch. Everything that 

 has been urged against it in the case of coal-mines applies with 

 even greater force to metalliferous mines, and there is here an added 

 argument of the greatest cogency. It is well-known to every one 

 at all conversant with the subject that metalliferous mining, especially 



