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YIIl. — Catalogue of Students' Collection in Sedgwick Museum. 

 By Heney Woods, M.A., F.G.S. 



THE third edition has "been issued (price 6f?.) of a "Catalogue of the 

 Fossils in the Students' Stratigraphical Series," Sedgwick Museum, 

 Cambridge, by Henry Woods, M.A. It will undoubtedly be welcome 

 to many teachers as well as students, to those who write textbooks 

 as well as to those who conduct classes, and we hope also to those 

 who act as examiners. It will probably not be welcome to the 

 majority of expert palaeontologists or specialists. IN'evertheless, as 

 a via media it is an important sign of the times. Those who have 

 to deal with students and amateurs who require only a general 

 knowledge of geology and palaeontology, know full well that to 

 attempt to teach a knowledge of fossils combined with modern 

 palaeontological nomenclature is an almost hopeless task. Those who 

 seek to become specialists in one or moi'e branches of palaeontology 

 (for no one can be expert in all) must learn the older and more 

 comprehensive names of fossils, as well as those applied to the present 

 subdivisions both of genera and species. For them to neglect the 

 history of the subject would be fatal. To the amateur, to the student 

 who wishes to apply geological knowledge to engineering or mining 

 questions, and to the more advanced geologist who cares not to 

 grapple with the genealogical side of palaeontology, a simpler system 

 of nomenclature, such as that given in the present list, should be 

 ample. Therefore, we rejoice to see in this Catalogue the familiar 

 names of Goniatites spliericus^ Aviculopecten papyraceus, Avicula 

 contorta, Waldheimia numismalis, Ammonites serpentinus, Rhynchonella 

 spinosa, Ostrea gregaria, Cyprina Islandica^ and Rhinoceros tichorhinus. 



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I. — Geological Society oe London. 

 Annual General Meeting. 



Fehruary 2\st, 1908.— Sir Archibald Geikie, K.C.B., D.C.L., 

 Sc.D., Sec. U.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Eeports of the Council and of the Library and Museum 

 Committee for the year 1907, proofs of which had been previously 

 distributed to the Fellows, were read. It was stated that- the 

 flourishing condition of the Society had been marked, in the year 

 under review, by a fui'ther increase in the number of Fellows, the 

 number elected being 74 (20 more than in 1906). Of these, 58 paid 

 their admission fees before the end of the year, making, with 1 6 

 previously elected Fellows, a total accession of 74 in the course of 

 1907. During the same period, the losses by death, resignation, and 

 removal amounted to 47 (9 more than in 1906), the actual increase 

 in the number of Fellows being, therefore, 27 (as compared with 

 an increase of 12 in ^1906). The total number of Fellows on 

 December 31st, 1907, was 1278. 



The balance-sheet for that vear showed receipts to the amount of 

 £3,100 17«. lOd. (excluding a balance of £216 Is. Id. brought forward 

 from 1906), and an expenditure of £3,148 2s. 



