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which were exhibited at the Meeting, the corallites were not united 

 by the stolon, and they are not figured as united (in Plate XIV. 

 Figs. 7, 8) in the Geological Magazine, though they were so 

 in the original drawing submitted to the Geological Society by 

 Mr. Tomes. 



As these statements relate to matters of fact, I should feel obliged 

 if you would allow me this opportunity of rectifiying them in the 

 Magazine. 



" The Eeferee." 



MISCELL A13"EO US. 



THE "COMING-OF-AGE" OF THE GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 



Testimonial to the Editor, Dr. H. Woodward, F.K.S., F.G.S. 



A meeting of the Subscribers to the Testimonial to Dr. H.Woodward, 

 F.E.S., for twenty-one years Editor of the Geological Magazine, 

 was held on the 15th December, 1885, at the Apartments of the 

 Geological Society, Burlington House, when Prof. T. G. Bonney, 

 F.E.S. (President Geol. Soc), presented to that gentleman, on behalf 

 of the subscribers, a silver salver with a tea and coffee service and 

 a cheque for £258. On making the presentation, Prof. Bonney 

 addressed Dr. Woodward as follows: — 



" Dr. Woodward — 



It is now rather more than twenty-one years since the Geological 

 Magazine arose upon the foundation — I had almost said the ruins — 

 of an earlier publication. For the whole of that time you have been 

 one of its editors, for almost the whole its principal editor. On you, 

 though supported by the aid and counsel of most able coadjutors, 

 has fallen the chief burden of the work, the chief responsibility of 

 the undertaking. , 



It would be difficult to appreciate too highly the aid which the 

 Geological Magazine has rendered to the pi'ogress of our Science. 

 It has supplied a want which had long been felt, which would at 

 once recur if it ceased to make its welcome monthly appearance. 

 There are many Geological notes and papers written, which, from 

 their brevity, from their interest being of a somewhat ephemeral 

 character, from their treatment being more historical or their aim 

 more controversial, are not exactly suited to the pages of the 

 Quarterly Journal of the Society in whose rooms we are assembled ; 

 yet the appearance of these in print is a boon to students and a 

 benefit to science. The Geological Magazine thus occupies a 

 position, which, on one hand, has common ground with our 

 Quarterly Journal ; on another, with the Proceedings of Local 

 Scientific Societies ; on a third with such a publication as " Nature," 

 but which is not exactly covered by any one of these. During all 



ese years it has been an important aid to British Geologists, and 



