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THE 



GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE 



OR 



^Honthlt) Journal of (leologj). 



WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED 



THE! GEOLOGIST. 



EDITED BY 



HENRY WOODWARD, LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., &.c. 



ASSISTED BY 



Professor J. W. GREGORY, D.Sc, F.R.S., F.G.S. 

 Dr. GEORGE J. HINDE, F.R.S., F.G.S. 

 SIR THOMAS H. HOLLAND, K.C.I E., A.R.C.S., D.Sc, F.R.S , F.G.S. 

 Dr. JOHN EDWARD MARR, M.A., Sc.D. (Camb.), F.R.S. , F.G.S. 

 Dr. J. J. H. TEALL, M.A., Sc.D. (Camb.), LL.D., F.RJ3 

 Professor W. W. WATTS, Sc.D., M.Sc, F.R.S., Vice 

 Dr. ARTHUR SMITH WOODWARD, F.R.S., F.L 



JANUARY, 1915. 



contents: 



I. Original Articles. Page 



Eminent Living Geologists : A. S, 

 Woodward, LL.D., F.R.S., etc 

 (With a Portrait, Plate I.) 



Studies in Edrioasteroidea. VI 

 Pyrgocystis, n.g. By Dr. F. A 

 Bather, M.A., F.R.S. (Plates 



ii, in.) 



The Marsupites Chalk of Brighton 

 By R. M. Brydone, F.G.S., ... 12 



The Penmaenmawr Intrusions. By 

 H. C. Sargent, F.G.S. (With 

 two Text-figures.) 15 



The Laterites of French Guinea. 

 By L. Leigh Fermor, D.Sc, 

 F.G.S 



II. Reviews. 

 Water Reptiles of the Past and 



Present. By Prof. S. W. Williston 

 Reptiles and Batrachians . By E . G . 



Boulenger, F.Z.S. ... ' 



Mineral Resources of the United 



States 



Middle Trias Faunas of North 



America. By J. Perrin Smith ... 



28 



37 



38 



38 



39 



W. 



Reviews {continued) . 



Fauna of the Spiti Shales 



Crinoids and Dolomite. By F 

 Clarke and W. C. Wheeler 



An Early Stage of Acmcea. By 

 Professor E. S. Morse 



Brief Notices : Bactrian Camel in 

 Alaska — Chalk of Gingin, W. 

 Australia ■ — Cambrian Strati- 

 graphy — Geology of Long Island 

 — Transportation of Debris by 

 Water — Temperature in Deep 

 Boring at Findlay, Ohio — Grand 

 Gulch Mining, Arizona 



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III. Reports and Proceedings. 



Zoological Society — 



November 24, 1914 43 



Geologists' Association- — 



December 4, 1914 43 



Geological Society — 



December 2, 1914 44 



IV. Correspondence. 



J. Reid Moir ... 46 



Dr. L. Leigh Fermor 47 



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