MONTHLY NOTICE. 



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MONTHLY NOTICE. 



August 1st. 1842. 



We have to communicate this month the answer received 

 from the Geological Society of London, in reply to the 

 letter addressed to that body, on the representations of our 

 correspondents, which we presented verbatim in our last 

 number; in justice to them we now insert the transcript 

 of the reply. 



Apartments of the Geological Society, 



Somerset House, June 16, 1842. 



Sir, 



I am directed by the Council of the Geological Society 

 of London, to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, dated 



the — day of , and to inform you that it is contrary to 



the long established and approved practice of the Geological 

 Society, to permit or in any way sanction the publica- 

 tion of the discussions which take place at their evening 

 meetings, or any comment thereupon; and the council 

 have seen with extreme regret, in the numbers of the Geo- 

 logist," to which you have referred them, that you have 

 allowed allusions to those discussions to be inserted in those 

 publications. 



I have the honour to be, Sir, 



Your obedient servant, 

 {signed) Wm. J. Hamilton, Sec. 



This reply, on the part of the Geological Society, leaves 

 us however, in precisely the same situation as previously, 

 and therefore calls for more than a mere insertion. We are 

 informed, that the Society will not permit the publication 

 of the discussions which take place at their evening meet- 

 ings, or any comment thereon, and are surprized at the 

 notices which we have already given. The results of the 



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