THE 



GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE 



r^EW SERIES. DECADE VL VOL. L 



No. VI.— JUNE, 1914. 



OmC3-IlSr.A.I-. .A-E-TIOLEIS. 



THE COMPLETION OF FIFTY YEARS OF THE 

 GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 



rPHE publication of the 60()th Number of the Geological Magazine 

 J completes fifty years of its existence, and the Editor gladly 

 avails himself of the occasion to express to his numerous friends and 

 colleagues his most cordial thanks for their unfailing and generous 

 support since 1864. Without their aid he would have been on many 

 occasions at a loss to sustain the difficult task of providing for the 

 monthly issue of the Magazine through so many years. 



It is very gratifying to the Editor that the Kev. Osmond Fisher, 

 M.A.,F.GS., Sir Archibald Geikie, E.G. B., P. P.R.S., E.G. S., Professor 

 W. Boyd Dawkins, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S., and Professor Edward Hull, 

 M.A., LL.D., F.Il.S., F.G.S. (who represent the contributors to the 

 1864 volume) have sent him letters of congratulation on his Jubilee ; 

 for, alas ! by far the larger number of the early friends and 

 supporters of the Geological Magazine have " joined the majority". 

 The ranks of the geologists have, nevertheless, maintained their 

 strength, as will be seen by a reference to the retrospect of the 

 work in the forty years from 1864 to 1903, in which a splendid 

 record is furnished of geological and palseontological contributions, 

 summarized by the late Horace B. Woodward and the Editor.' The 

 subsequent decade (1904-14) has been no less prolific in good work. 

 Indeed, one may venture to maintain that the quality of the con- 

 tributions in these later years has been distinctly in advance of those 

 preceding them ; whilst the illustrations have increased very greatly 

 both in numbers and excellence. Our friends the subscribers, too, 

 have helped the Magazine with their kindly and necessary support, 

 and if tliey will only continue, like our contributors, to increase in 

 numbers its future happiness and success will be assured. 



I^etter from the Rev. Osmond Fisher, If. A., F.G.S. , Hon. Felloio and 

 late Tutor of Jesus College, Cambridge {mt. 97). 



Dear Dr. Woodward, — I well remember meeting you at the rooms 

 of the Geological Society, then at Somerset House, when you told me 

 that you proposed to bring out a periodical in the science, and you 

 asked me to contribute papers to it ; I took this as a great compliment, 

 and I think I may feel proud that none of my contril)utions to the 

 Geological Magazine have ever been refused admission.'- You are 



^ See Geol. Mag., January to April, 1904. 



^ Mr. Fisher's contributions to the Geological Magazine number 109. 

 His life and portrait appeared in the February number for 1900, p. 49. 

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