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From Professor W. Boyd Dnwkins, M.A., D.Sc. (Oxoh.), D.Se. 

 (Manch.), F.Ji.S., F.S.A., F.G.S., etc., etc. 



My dear Woodward, — I write to congratulate you on tbe fiftieth 

 anniversary of the Geological Magazine, and on your unique 

 experience as founder and editor from the very beginning. I do not 

 know another casein the history of science of so long and so successful 

 a tenure of a like position. 



As one of the four contributors to its first number now alive, and 

 the writer of many articles in the Magazine during the past fifty 

 years/ I wish to convey to you my sense of personal obligation for 

 innumerable kind acts and wise counsels in my relation to you as 

 Editor. The Magazine itself has had an important share in the 

 spreading of geological knowledge. Its leading features have been 

 fearlessness and independence, and absolute freedom from subservience 

 to popular opinion, or to the influence of cliques or bureaux. It has 

 maintained always a high level of excellence, and been supported by 

 the leaders of geological thought of their day. 



In the future, when you hand over the Editor's chair to your 

 successor, you will have the joy of knowing that the Magazine will 

 be carried on, as before, on your lines, through the eminent men who 

 form the Committee,- and that your work will live. With all good 

 wishes, I am, my dear Woodward, yours truly, 



W. Boyd Dawkins. 



The Athen^um Club, Pall Mall. 

 Maij 13, 1914. 



From Professor Fdivard Hull, M.A., LL.D., F.P.S., F.G.S. 



Dear Dr. Woodward, — . . . The work of Editor of the Geological 

 Magazine for fifty years has reflected the greatest credit on your 

 ability and extreme care of detail and accuracy in that rather delicate 

 capacity, and I consider it is owing largely to these qualities that the 

 Magazine has survived to the present day. I am surprised at what 

 you say as regards the number of my own contributions,^ and I 

 certainly owe a debt of gratitude to the Geological Magazine, as, on 

 more than one occasion, it has afforded a refuge for papers of my own 

 intended for publication elsewhere. — Ever very truly yours, 



Edward Hull. 

 14 Stanley Gardens, W. 

 May 11, 1914. 



^ Professor Boyd Dawkins has contributed forty articles to the GEOLOGICAL 

 Magazine. His Hfe and portrait appeared in the Geol. Mag., December, 

 1909, p. 529, PI. XXX. 



" The writer refers to the Editor's supporters whose names appear on the 

 cover and on the title-page, namely : Professor J. W. Gregory, D.Sc., F.E.S., 

 F.G.S. ; Dr. George J. Hinde, F.E.S., F.G.S. ; Sir Thomas Holland, K.C. I.E., 

 A.R.C.S., D.Sc, F.E.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.R.S., F.G.S. ; Professor W. W. Watts, Sc.D., M.Sc, F.R.S., V.P.G.S. ; 

 Dr. Arthur Smith Woodward, F.R.S., F.L.S., Pres. Geol. Soc. 



" Professor Hull has made 119 communications to the GEOLOGICAL 

 Magazine between 1864 and 1914. 



