THE 



GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE 



VOLUME LIX. 



No. III.— MARCH, 1922. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



The officers of the Geological Society of London for the current 

 year have been elected as follows : President, Professor A. C. 

 Seward ; Vice-Presidents, Professor E. J. Garwood, Mr. E. D. 

 Oldham, Dr. G. T. Prior, and Dr. H. H. Thomas ; Secretaries, 

 Mr. W. Campbell Smith and Mr. J. A. Douglas ; Foreign Secretary, 

 Sir A. Geikie ; and Treasurer, Mr. E. S. Harries. The new members 

 of the Council are : Mr. F. N. Ashcroft, Professor P. G. H. Boswell, 

 Dr. F. H. Hatch, and Mr. H. Woods. 



In the Eeport of the Council for 1921 the item of greatest interest 

 to most geologists is the question of the List of Geological Literature. 

 It is stated that the publication of the Subject-Index must be dis- 

 continued, and this will be a matter of universal regret. We would 

 urge the Council to reconsider this decision, and to endeavour to 

 devise some method for its continuance, even if in an abbreviated 

 form. For oar own part we would rather scrap the Abstracts than 

 the Subject-Index, since the latter is of permanent value, while 

 nearly everything in the Abstracts appears eventually in the 

 Quarterly Journal. 



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We regret to learn that, owing to the greatly increased cost of 

 production, the Zoological Record is in danger of being discontinued, 

 unless a larger number of subscribers can be obtained. Fifty-five 

 volumes (up to 1918) have been issued, and the volume for 1919 is 

 in the Press. We call attention to this since the Record includes 

 Palseontology, and now that the Geological Literature published 

 by the Geological Society no longer includes an index of subjects, 

 the Zoological Record should be of even greater importance than 

 hitherto to Palaeontologists. Those who do not require complete 

 volumes can obtain separately the parts dealing with the groups in 

 which they are interested. Further particulars may be obtained from 

 the Secretary, Zoological Society, Eegent's Park, London, N.W. 8. 

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Mr. G. V. Colchester has been appointed to the post of Geologist 

 on the Geological Survey of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in succession 

 to Mr. C. T. Madigan, who now holds a lectureship in geology at 

 Adelaide University. 



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