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kind permission of Dr. Smith Woodward, Keeper of the Geological 

 Department, agreed to allow them to remain in his charge for six 

 months. Dr. Smith "Woodward will therefore arrange for any serious 

 student to have access to them on any week-day between the hours 

 of 10 and 4 at the British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell 

 Road, S.W. 



Deav-ponds. — Mr. E. A. Martin, who has given great attention to 

 the subject, summarizes our knowledge in an article "Some Con- 

 siderations concerning Dew-ponds " (reprinted from the Trans, of the 

 S.E. Union of Scientific Societies, 1908). The methods of construction 

 of dew-ponds, their position, and other circumstances attending them 

 are pointed out. As the author has previously maintained, the supply 

 of water cannot be attributed wholly nor even principally to the 

 deposition of dew ; mist appears to be the most important source, and 

 deposition of moisture is also favoured in some situations hj trees and 

 other forms of vegetation. 



Geologists' Association. — The jubilee of this Society occurred on 

 Sunday, November 29, and arrangements were made to celebrate it 

 by a Conversazione at University College, Gower Street, on Friday, 

 November 27, the nearest appropriate date ; and by visits to the 

 British Museum of Natural History and to the Museum of Practical 

 Geology, followed by a dinner, on the Saturday. To mark the 

 completion of their fiftieth year the Association have arranged to issue 

 a volume dealing with the Geology of the Districts of England and 

 Wales visited by them since 1858, the subjects to be treated from 

 the standpoint of our present knowledge. 



Geoiogicax Sdevey. — Dr. Aubrey Sti'ahan, E.R.S., has been 

 appointed Assistant Director (for England and Wales) in the room 

 of Mr. H. B. Woodward, who retired on December 31, 1908.- 

 Mr. George Barrow, F.G.S., has been promoted to the rank of 

 District Geologist. 



AwAKDS OE Medals and Funds, Geological Society. — The 

 Geological Society of London will this year award its medals and funds 

 as follows: — Wollaston Medal to Mr. Horace B. Woodward, F.E.S.; 

 WoUaston Fund to Mr. Arthur J. C. Molyneux (Rhodesia) ; Murchison 

 Medal to Professor Grenville A. J. Cole ; Murchison Fund to Mr. James 

 V. Elsden, B.Sc. ; Lyell Medal to Professor Percy F. Kendall; Lyell 

 Fund to Mr. R. G. Carruthers and Mr. Herbert Brantwood Muff; 

 Bigsby Medal to Dr. John Smith Flett ; Prestwich Medal to Lady 

 Evans. 



Death of Lady Waeington Smyth. — We regret to record the 

 death of Lady Smyth. — On the 24th January, at her residence, West 

 Cliff, Marazion, in the 82nd year of her age, Anna Maria 

 Antonia, widow of the late Sir Warington W. Smyth, F.R.S., and 

 daughter of the late Anthony M. R. Story-Maskelyne, F.R.S., of 

 Basset Down, Wilts. — Morning Post, January 26, 1909. 



