146 Editorial Notes. 



In the list of those recommended by the Council for election to- 

 the Royal Society we are glad to see the name of Dr. Robert 

 Broom, of Griquatown, South Africa. The importance of 

 Dr. Broom's work in anatomy and zoology is generally recognized, 

 both in its bearings on the evolution of the higher vertebrates 

 and in its relations to the study of South African stratigraphy. 

 Dr. F, H. A. Marshall also, though pre-eminently a physiologist 

 and agriculturalist, has taken much interest in the geological history 

 of the vertebrates, and in particular of the domesticated animals, 

 on which he has published some interesting details. But with these 

 exceptions the list is, frankly, very disappointing. It does not 

 contain the name of any geologist or of any representative of the 

 allied sciences of mineralogy and geography. This is very dis- 

 couraging to the workers in all these branches, now so numerous, 

 and if this policy continues a deadlock will soon be reached, so that 

 many eminent geologists, mineralogists, and geographers who have 

 reached the meridian of life will see their chances of election 

 indefinitely postponed, while for the younger generation the outlook 

 is unpromising. 



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Very different is the complexion of the similar list issued by the 

 Royal Society of Edinburgh. This includes the names of no less 

 than four geologists, namely Mr. E. M. Anderson, Mr. E.B. Bailey, 

 Mr. R. G. Carruthers, all members of the Geological Survey of 

 Great Britain, and Mr. W. R. Smellie, geologist on the staff of the- 

 Anglo-Persian Oil Company. Some of these gentlemen are valued 

 contributors to our pages, and we are glad to a:vail ourselves of this 

 opportunity to acknowledge with gratitude the support and 

 encouragement that we have received from Scottish geologists, 

 and especially from Mr. Bailey, during the recent crisis in the affairs 

 of the Magazine. 



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Captain W. B. R. King, O.B.E., M.A., F.G.S., of Jesus College, 

 Cambridge, formerly of H.M. Geological Survey, and now Assistant 

 to the Woodwardian Professor, has been elected to a Fellowship 

 at Jesus College. We have already had occasion to refer more than 

 once to the brilliant work carried out by Captain King as geologist 

 on the Western Front, and we congratulate him heartily on this; 

 further distinction added by his college to his well-deserved honours. 

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The Geological Society of London and the Mineralogical Society 

 have set up a joint committee of twelve petrologists " to consider 

 whether any standardization of British petrographic nomenclature 

 is possible and desirable, and if so, to make recommendations with 

 that end in view ". The following six members were nominated 

 by the Geological Society : Dr. J. S. Flett, Mr. A. Harker, Sir J. J. 

 Harris Teall, Dr. H. H. Thomas, Mr. G. W. Tyrrell, and Professor 



