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beds were noticed in the Geological Magazine by the late 

 R. J. Lechmere Guppy (see Geol. Mag. 1865, p. 256; 1866, p. 179 ; 

 1870, p. 235 ; 1874, pp. 404-33 ; 1892, p. 331 ; 1900, p. 322), and 

 of late years have attracted much attention. 



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Stanley Smith, M.A., D.Sc, has been appointed Reader in Geology 

 in the University of London (Bedford College) in place of Miss C. A. 

 Raisin, D.Sc, who has resigned. 



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The " David Synie " prize of £100, with medal, for scientific research 

 for the year 1920, has been awarded to Mr. Frederick Chapman, 

 A.L.S., palaeontologist to the National Museum and lecturer in 

 palaeontology in the University of Melbourne. 



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Dr. Griffith Taylor has been appointed to the newly established 

 professorship of geography in the University of Sydney. After 

 graduating at Sydney Dr. Taylor became a research student of 

 Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and was afterwards chief geologist 

 in Captain Scott's Antarctic expedition. Since then he has been 

 connected with the Federal Meteorology Bureau in Melbourne. 



A frequent contributor to the Geological Magazine, Dr. Arthur 

 Holmes, Assoc. R.C.Sci., F.G.S., Imp. Coll. Sci. Tech., sailed for Burma 

 in September last for several months (on leave) to carry on geological 

 investigations in that region as to oil and other economics. 



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At the present day good exposures of the Cambridge Greensand are 

 seldom seen, but an excellent opportunity of studying this interesting 

 deposit is now to be found at the Norman Cement Works, near 

 Cambridge. The company works the lower part of the Chalk Marl 

 for cement, and excavations are usually carried down to a few 

 feet above the Gault. Some new plant is now being installed in 

 the pit, requiring considerable excavation for foundations. The 

 base of the Chalk Marl and the Cambridge Greensand have been 

 dug through and about 5 feet of Gault is exposed. There is, there- 

 fore, an excellent clean-cut section showing the Cambridge Green- 

 sand, and its relation to the beds above and below. The pockety 

 surface of the Gault, bored by animals living in the Greensand 

 sea, is well seen, since the burrows are filled wHh a light greyish- 

 green sand, contrasting well with the darker Gault. The phosphatic 

 nodules characteristic of the bed are well developed, and the gradual 

 passage ujDward into the Cenomanian is clear. No doubt the 

 Manager of the Company would be pleased to allow any geologist 

 interested in this bed to visit the pit while this excellent temporary 

 section is exposed. 



