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THE 



GEOLOGICAL I^AGAZINE 



VOLUME LVII. 



No. VIII— AUGUST, 1920/^'" '''^> 



'AUG 19 1920 

 EDITORIAL NOTE.Si,, 



1IR AUBREY STRAHAN, K.B.E., Sc.D., LL.D., F/Ri^-retifed 

 in July from the post of Director of the Geological Survey. He 

 is succeeded by Dr. J. S. Flett, O.B.E., F.R.S., who has hitherto 

 been Assistant Director of the Scottish branch. Mr. G. W. 

 Lamplugh, F.R.S., Assistant Director for England and Wales, 

 lately President of the Geological Society of London, has also 

 retired, from the Survey. 



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We greatly regret to announce the death of Dr. Wheelton Hind, 

 which took place on June 21 after a short illness. Owing to want 

 of space an appreciation of his geological work is held over till 

 next month. We have also in hand a paper by Dr. Hind on the 

 Distribution of British Carboniferous Nautiloids, received only 

 a few days before his death ; this it is hoped to publish very 

 shortly. Dr. A. Scott, of Stoke-upon-Trent, has kindly agreed 

 to correct the proofs and see the paper through the press. 

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The 88th annual meeting of the British Association for the 

 Advancement of Science will be held at Cardiff from August 24 

 to August 28, 1920, under the presidency of Professor W. A. 

 Herdman, C.B.E., D.Sc, Sc.D., LL.D., F.R.S., who will in his 

 address give a general survey of Oceanography, and will deal with 

 certain special problems in detail. The meetings of Section C 

 (Geology) will be held in the Technical College. The president 

 of this section will be Dr. F. A. Bather, F.R.S., and the secretaries 

 are Dr. A. R. Dwerryhouse, Dr. W. T. Gordon, Dr. G. Hickling, 

 and Professor A. H. Cox. 



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The Geophysical meetings of the Royal Astronomical Society 

 for next session have been fixed as follows : November 5, Geodesy ; 

 December 3, Terrestrial Magnetism ; February 4, to be arranged ; 

 March 4, Seismology ; May 6, Meteorology ; June 17, Geodesy, 

 Air Fellows of the Geological Society are invited to attend, and 

 fuller particulars will appear in Nature, or can be obtained on 

 application to the Assistant Secretary, Royal Astronomical 

 Society, Burlington House, W. 1. 



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