434 Editorial Notes. 
At the first meeting of the Advisory Committee for the Metalliferous 
Mining Industry the Secretary for Mines, Mr. W. C. Bridgeman, M.P., 
welcomed the members in an opening speech. After deploring the 
depressed state of the mining industry, he went on to state, in 
emphatic terms, that the Government could in no circumstances 
afford any financial assistance. One must suppose that the industry 
as a whole does not command enough votes to be of any importance 
for electoral purposes. It would be a matter of much interest to 
compare the amounts of public money spent on coal mining and 
metalliferous mining respectively. With one portion of the speech 
we are in hearty agreement: “he thought that the mining industry 
in this country had suffered in the past from an insufficient 
acquaintance with geological information in regard to all its metals.” 
This is certainly true, but of late a good deal has been done to 
remedy this defect, especially by the publication of the valuable 
series of Special Reports of the Geological Survey on the Mineral 
Resources of Great Britain. We are glad to note that the Secretary 
for Mines went on to stete that arrangements had been made for 
co-operation between his department and the Geological Survey 
in this matter. From this much good should arise. 
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Prorsssor W. G. Frarnsibes, of Sheffield University, has gone to 
Canada and the United States on a year’s leave in order to study 
geological conditions in those countries. In his absence the 
geological department at Sheffield will be in charge of Mr. W. H. 
Wilcockson, Lecturer in Geology. 
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Dr. ArtHuR Hotmss, formerly Assistant Demonstrator in Geology 
at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, has lately returned 
to Burma, after a trip home on leave. He will in future reside at 
Yenangyaung in order to manage the oil and coal fields of the 
Yomah Oil Company. We understand that Dr. L. Dudley Stamp 
will shortly proceed to Burma to undertake geological work under 
the same company. 
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Dr. Stantey Surru recently sailed for Canada to take up the duties 
of Assistant Professor of Geology at Queen’s University, Kingston, 
Ontario. 
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Tue 89th meeting of the British Association for the Advancement 
of Science, held at Hdinburgh from 7th to 13th September, did not 
present any features of outstanding interest to geologists. The 
President of the Association, Sir T. H. Thorpe, devoted part of his 
inaugural address to an account of the organization and work of the 
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the latest body to 
assume control of the Geological Survey. On another page we give 
& list of the papers read in Section C (Geology). Besides these papers 
