530 Edliovial Notes. 



])icked up on the surface, to a large extent by Dr. and Mrs. Sturgc ; 

 and the scr'cs from Warren Hill, High Lodge, and Elvedcn arc of 

 the liighest importance. Himdreds of Dr.ft implements come from 

 gravel pits in the Thames valley near Dawley (Hayes, Middlesex), 

 and quantities from other well-known sites, such as Swanscombe, 

 Farnham, Dunbridge, Southampton, Savernake Forest, Bedford, and 

 Broom. A large quantity had been acquired from Mr. Worthington 

 Smith, mostly found in north-east London ; and other collections 

 made by Canon Greenwell and Messrs Greenhill, Allen Brown, 

 Simeon Fenton, Robert Elliot, and Thomas Bateman were 

 incorporated. 



The foreign section is also very rich, the entire contents of many 

 French caves having been obtained from M. Reverdi. Chief among 

 such specimens is a Solutre blade from the hoard found at Volgu 

 in the Dept.-Saone-et-Loire ; and the French Drift and Neohthic 

 series are well selected. Scandinavia, Western and Southern Europe 

 are adequately represented, and there is a large collection from the 

 Swiss lake-dwellings. An ample Egyptian series contains some of 

 the best flint work known, and there are hundreds of excellent 

 examples from America, South and East Africa, and Madras.^ 



We have received a cojiy of the first number of a new periodical, 

 The Mining Electrical Engineer, which is to be the official 

 journal of the Association of Mining Electrical Engineers ; this 

 body has now had a useful existence of eleven years, and it has 

 naturally felt the need of a definite organ of opinion, to place before 

 the world a record of the work done by the Association, and to collect 

 information as to the general j^rogress of electrical engineering as 

 applied to mines. The contents of this number are naturally 

 mainly of a technical nature, and there is not very much bearing on 

 geological questions. Nevertheless, the connexion between mining 

 and geology is so close that we welcome this addition to the literature 

 of the subject. The general get-up of the journal, which is profusely 

 illustratecl, is excellent, and we wish it a successful career. 



At last the Geological Society of London (following the earlier 

 example of the Geologists' Association) have resolved to expend 

 a sum of £500 from the invested funds of the Society to 

 provide the means necessary to carry on scientific publications, 

 and a special general meeting will be held on December 1, 

 1920, at 5.15 p.m., in order to obtain sanction to carry out this 

 object. Having regard to the great increase in the cost of printing 

 and paper since the War, no Fellow of the Society can doubt the 

 wisdom of this recommendation of the Council. In addition to the 



^ A summary description in French of the whole collection was printed for 

 the meeting of the International Congress of Anthropology and Prehistoric 

 Archgeology which met at Monaco in 1906-. 



