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HORACE BOLINGBROKE WOODWARD, F.R.S., F.G.S. 



FEBRUARY, 1899. 



OOnSTTIBItTTS, 



I. Original Articles. page 



1. Eminent Living Geologists : 

 A. E. C. Selwyn, C.M.G., 

 LL.D., F.E.S., F.G.S., etc. 

 (With a Portrait.) 49 



2. On the "Submerged Platform 

 of Western Europe." By the 

 Eev. Osmond Fisher, M.A., 

 E.G.S bQ 



3. Preliminary Note on Frolimuhis 

 Woodivardi. By Dr. Anton 

 Eritsch. (With a Woodcut.) 57 



4. The Westleton Beds at Ayot 

 Brickfield. By Horace W. 

 MoNCicTON, F.L.S., F.G.S. 

 (With a Section.) 59 



5. Table of Contemporary Deposits, 

 Avith their Characteristic Genera 

 of Mammalia. By Dr. C. I. 

 Forsyth-Major 60 



II. Notices of Memoirs. 



1. The Movement of Material on 

 the Sea - coast. By W. H. 

 Wheeler, M.Inst.C.E 



2. Leadhillite from the Mendip 

 Hills. By L. J. Spencer, M.A., 

 F.G.S 71 



3. Gigantic Irish Deer -Remains. 



By P. M. G. Kermode 72 



4. List of British Minerals. By 

 L.J. Spencer, M.A., F.G.S. ... 



5. On Arborescent Carboniferous 

 Limestone near Bristol. By 

 H. B. Woodward, F.R.S., etc. 



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75 



77 



Notices of Memoirs — continued, page 



6. The Building of CUfton Rocks. 

 ByE. Wethered, F.G.S 



7. The Upper Felsitic Lava of 

 Snowdon. By J". R. Dakyns, 

 M.A 



8. Worked Flints from Cheshire, etc. 

 By J. Lomas, A.R.C.S 



III. Reviews. 



1. Fossil Medusae. By Professor 

 C. D. Walcott, F.G.S 



2. The Principles of Stratigraphical 

 Geology. By J. E. Marr, M.A., 

 F.R.S., F.G.S 



3. Outlines of the Earth's History. 

 By Professor N. S. Shaler, 

 Harvard, TJ.S.A 



4. An Intermediate Textbook of 

 Geology. By Prof. C. Lapworth, 

 F.R.S 



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IV. Reports and Proceedings. 



Geological Society of London — 



1. December 21, 1898 88 



2. January 4, 1899 91 



V. Correspondence. 



1. Mr. J. Smith 93 



2. Prof. T. Rupert Jones, F.R.S. 93 



3. Professor G. Dewalque 94 



4. Mr. A. J. Jukes-Browne 94 



VI. Obituary. 



1. William Colchester, J.P., F.G.S. 96 



2, Professor H. A. Nicholson, 

 F.R.S., etc 96 



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