THE 
GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE 
VOLUME LVIII. 
No. V.—MAY, 1921. 
EDITORIAL NOTES. 
HE Committee on British Petrographic Nomenclature that 
has been sitting for some months has now issued its report, 
which has been printed in the Mineralogical Magazine, and a 
separate copy has also been issued to every one entitled to receive 
No. 305 of the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. We 
should like to take this opportunity of congratulating the committee, 
and especially the chairman, Professor Watts, and the secretary, 
Mr. W. Campbell Smith, on this prompt appearance of the results 
of their labours. An additional number of copies of the Report 
are still available for distribution, first to petrologists abroad and 
then to any interested persons who may apply for them to the 
Secretary. It is not proposed here to offer any detailed remarks 
on the subject-matter of the Report, except to say that in our 
opinion a very wise course has been followed in suggesting the 
Hscontinuance of a considerable number of obsolete, ambiguous, 
id unnecessary names. In this respect the Committee might even 
with advantage have gone further than it has. At all events, it is 
satisfactory to find that the Committee is not to be dissolved, as 
we believe that a good deal of useful work may yet be accomplished 
by it in the direction of the simplification of a science hitherto 
overburdened and rendered unattractive by a ponderous nomen- 
clature. It is hoped that some further comments on this subject, 
' editorial and otherwise, will appear in a later issue. 
THe Secretary for Mines has appointed Dr. F. H. Hatch, M.Inst.C.E., 
M.Inst.M.M., to be Technical Adviser to the Mines Department 
on questions relating to the Metalliferous Mining Industry. 
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