THE 



GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE 



VOLUME LVII. 



No. XII.—DEOEMBER, 1920. 

 EDITORIAL NOTES. 



rpiIE senior Editor, Dr. Henry Woodward, F.E.S., who founded 

 -*- the Geological Magazine in 1864, completed his 88th year 

 on November 24, 1920, and is still enjoying good health and taking 

 a warm interest in the Magazine. He played an active part in the 

 preparation of the present issue, No. 678, the concluding number of 

 the 57th volun:ie. 



We learn that the following promotions have been made in the 

 Geological Survey : Mr. J. Allen Howe and Dr. Walcot Gibson 

 to be Assistants to the Director, the former in London and the latter 

 in Edinburgh ; Mr. Henry Dewey and Mr. Bernard Smith to be 

 District Geologists. We hope to give at an early date further 

 particulars as to future developments of the work of the Survey. 



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Mr. C. p. Chatwin, F.R.M.S.,'who so ably filled the office of 

 Librarian at the Geological Society, Burlington House, and was 

 macje Demonstrator in Geology at the University of Liverpool in 

 1919, under Professor P. G. H. Boswell, has, we learn, just been 

 appointed Assistant Palseontologist to the Geological Survey at the 

 Jermyn Street Museum under Dr. F. L. Kitchin, M.A., F.G.S. 

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About three hundred Upper Tertiary and Pi,ecent Gasteropods — 

 labelled by the donor in illustration of his monograph published 

 by the Palseontographical Society on the " Pliocene Mollusca of 

 Great Britain " (vol. i) — have been presented to the geological 

 Department of the British Museum (Natural History) by F. W. 

 Harmer, Esq., M.A., F.G.S. 



By the death of Dr. Allen Sturge, M.V.O., March 27, 1919, the 

 Department of British Mediaeval Antiquities in the British Museum, 

 Bloomsbury, received the finest private collection of stone 

 implements in existence. When packed, the collection, including 

 the exhibition and storage cases that formed part of the bequest, 

 weighed about 2-5 tons, and was conveyed by road from Icklingham 

 Hall, Suffolk, to London during the summer. 



The north-west angle of Suffolk is abundantly represented by 

 specimens excavated from clay and gravel or more frequently 



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