MONTHLY NOTICE. 



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MONTHLY NOTICE. 



1st. July, 1842. 



On the suggestion of many of our correspondents, we 

 have communicated, during the past month, with the Council 

 of the Geological Society of London, remonstrating with 

 them on the subject of their publications, the errors of which 

 we pointed out in our editorial notices of May and June 

 last; and it is but justice to them that we should here insert 

 a copy of the document referred to, which we accordingly 

 perform. 



To the Council of the 



Geological Society of London. 



Gentlemen. — Many correspondents of the Geologist" 

 have repeatedly called our attention to the statements which 

 are published in the proceedings of your Society, and which, 

 in their opinion, cast rather obliquity than perspicuity upon 

 the subjects reported. The recent cases noticed in the 

 Monthly Editorial comments of the " Geologist " of May 

 and J une, to which they have referred more directl}^, will 

 illustrate the nature of the complaints which have been so 

 generally made, and our object in communicating with your 

 Hon. Society in this instance, is to represent, if possible, 

 the grievance under which geologists labour, from the uncer- 

 tainty which your publications convey, both in themselves, 

 and the transcripts which naturally take place into the scien- 

 tific periodicals. 



If it were not presumptuous on the part of an individual 

 to offer an opinion, 1 would suggest the adoption of the 

 method practised amongst many societies abroad, of print- 

 ing, appended to the papers read, a summary of the discus- 

 sions which ensued, with the further addition of wood-cuts 



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