242 Jubilee of Geological Magazine. 



to be congratu]atecl that your scheme has been eminently successful, 

 having now obtained the fiftieth year of honourable fulfilment. 

 I look upon the " forty years' inciex " which you and Mrs. Woodward 

 brought out in July, 1905, as a marvel of correctness and arrangement, 

 making the series of volumes it covers — which I have had bound — 

 serviceable for reference. May you long have health and strength 

 to continue the editorship. Believe me, yours sincerely, 



Osmond Fishee. 

 Graveley, Huntingdon. 

 May 11, 1914. 



From Sir Archibald Geihie, O.M., K.C.B., F.Pres.R.S., D.C.L., 

 LL.D., F.G.S., etc. 



There can surely be but one opinion among geologists all over the 

 world, that their favourite science lies under no small obligation for 

 the constant support which, during half a century, it has received from 

 the Geological Magazine. At the start of this journal there were 

 some critics who predicted that it would soon become extinct, for 

 the portion of the public specially interested in geological science 

 was believed to be too limited to sustain its circulation, even were 

 the progress of observation and discovery ample enough to furnish 

 a supply of material for its pages. How completely this pessimistic 

 foreboding has been falsified, the issue of the 600th number of the 

 Magazine abundantly testifies. 



That there have been times of difficulty in the path of the Editor, 

 and how successfully he emerged from them, is known to many of his 

 well-wishers. To his energy, industry, and tact, his own personal 

 scientific standing, his friendly relations with the workers in every 

 bi'anch of geological science, and his readiness to open his pages to 

 every serious contribution which these workers might send him, the 

 Geological Magazine owes the unbroken continuity of its monthly 

 appearance and the high character which it has maintained as 

 a scientific periodical. 



Dr. Henry Woodward well deserves unstinted congratulations and 

 thanks from all students of geology. The service which his journal 

 has rendered to the progress of every department of the science is 

 difficult to estimate, but no serious reader of its pages can doubt that 

 this service has been real and has been continuous from the very first. 

 As one of the contributors to the first number of the Magazine and 

 one who has been familiar with its contents ever since, ^ I am glad of 

 this opportunity to record my own sense of the great usefulness of 

 the journal, and my admiration of the skill and success with which 

 he has guided its career through fifty eventful years. 



Akchibald Geikie. 



Athen^um Club. 



May 11, 1914. 



^ Sir A. Geikie has made nearly fifty contributions to its pages, and his 

 fife appeared in the Geol. Mag. for 1890, p. 49, and a portrait on the 

 centenary of the Geological Society, see Geol. Mag., January, 1907, 

 p. 1, PI. I. 



