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GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE 



VOLUME LVll. 



No. XL— NOVEMBER, 1920. 

 EDITORIAL NOTES. 



rpHE Swiney Lectures for 1920 in connexion with the British 

 -L Museum (Natural History) wdll be delivered by J. D. Falconer, 

 M.A., D.Sc, F.E.S.E., etc., on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays 

 from November 8 to December 3 at 5.30 p.m. in the Geology Lecture 

 Theatre, Royal School of Mines, Prince Consort Road, South 

 Kensington. The subject of the lectures, which will be illustrated 

 by lantern slides, is " The Modelling of the Earth's Crust ". 

 Admission is free. 



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On November 7 Professor Alfred Gabriel Nathorst, of Stockholm, 

 will celebrate his 70th birthday. In many fields Nathorst has left 

 a deep imprint on our science. As a specialist he ranks among the 

 most eminent of j)al8eobotanists, for his scientific results, for his 

 invention of new methods, and for the large and admirably arranged 

 collection that he has established in the Swedish State Museum. 

 As a pu2:)il and follower of Linnarsson his early studies were largely 

 on the Palaeozoic rocks of Southern Sweden, where the curious 

 markings in the Eophyton sandstones led to his classical memoir on 

 the origin of such tracks. His familiarity with the rocks in the 

 field, with their fossils in the laboratory, and with the writings of 

 his predecessors in the library rendered him the most appropriate 

 author of that useful work Sveriges Geologi. His love of sport (to 

 which the deafness of his later years is due) fitted him to lead those 

 exploring expeditions to Spitsbergen and Greenland which have 

 maintained the high place already gained by Sweden in geographical 

 research. British geologists, who are proud to greet Professor 

 Nathorst as almost the senior Foreign Member of the Geological 

 Society of London, will send him their congratulations on achieving 

 three-score years and ten of vigorous and fruitful life. 



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Mr. R. Bullen Newton, F.G.S., lately retired (under age-limit) 

 from the Geological Department in the British Museum (Natural 

 History), has gone upon an expedition to Trinidad to examine the 

 fossiliferous deposits yielding petroleum in that island. These 



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