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Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. — The following circular 

 has been issued by the Society to the Fellows : — Sir, — We are directed by the 

 Council of the Geological Society of London to transmit to you, as a Fellow 

 thereof, the following statement in regard to the Quarterly Journal of the Society, 

 and to request your aid in making the vulue of this publication more generally 

 known and appreciated, in the expectation that thus a larger number of copies 

 may be regularly circulated among subscribers. If this can be accomplished, the 

 Council will be enabled not only to maintain the Journal in toe high state of 

 efficiency which it has acquired, and even to increase its utility, but also to 

 entertain the question whether to reduce its price to Fellows of the Society. The 

 Journal of the Geological Society, published regularly four times in the year, 

 contains corrected memoirs and abstracts of communications made to the ordinary 

 meetings ; carefully executed engravings of organic remains, diagrams, and 

 sections, are frequently given to illustrate the papers, and selections from foreign 

 journals and publications place before the reader a general amount of con- 

 temporary geological progress. The authors whose labours are preserved in the 

 Journal cou>prise the most eminent cultivators of British Geologv ; the papers 

 which they have contributed record almost every recent discovery of importance, 

 in descriptions mostly drawn up by eye-witnesses ; the subjects treated of include 

 all classes of tacts in the domain of positive geology and palseontology. By 

 receiving this prompt and complete account of the labours of the Geological 

 Society, the Fellows, even when unable to be present at the meetings, are 

 furnished with a guide to the progress of Geology at once full and trustworthy, 

 "We doubt not that these considerations will have their due weight on your mind, 

 and induce you to give effect to the wish of the Council by instructing us to enter 

 your name on the list of subscribers to the Journal (if it be not so entered 

 already), and by recommending h to the favourable attention of your friends. 

 The annual sub.scription of a FelloAV of the Society, wishing to receive the Journal 

 re[;ularly, is Ticelce Shii.lings, due at the commencement of each year. Tlie 

 payment can be made either to the collector, or to Mr. Charles Nichols, at the 

 apartments of the Society, or by post-office- order, addressed to Mr. Charles 

 N ichols. The numbers as published are delivered at any address in London ; 

 or they can be sent by post to any Fellow of the Society, on the payment of 

 Thirteen ShllLings annually. The public are supplied through the ordinary 

 channels of trade, by Messrs. Longman and Co., at Sixteen Shillings. — We have 

 the honour to be, your very obedient servants, 



John Phillips, President, 

 Warrington VV. Smyth, ) „ j. • 

 Thos. Davidson, | Secretaries. 



Few works of a scientific character are so well managed or so creditably produced 

 as the Journal of the London Geological Society. For importance of information, 

 for originality of material, for purity of diction, and for editorial care, it ranks 

 among the hrst journals in Europe ; but we think the Council Avill err in reducing 

 the price. The matter is now well worth the money charged, and works of a 

 pui-ely scientific character stand in a different position altogether to those of a 

 popular character. There are only a definite number of really scientific men or 

 readers in the world, and no amount of cheapness in a periodical will increase that 

 number, but cheapness in the popular or elementary work increases its circula- 

 tion amongst the great mass of society. All true geologists either take, or ought 

 to take, tiie Qiiarterly Journal, and we agree entirely with every effort that will not 

 leave out any geologist from the number of the subscribers ; but we do not think 

 that any amount of cheapness would increase its circulation among the mass, 

 while the reduction of the price, with a limited issue, must necessarily deteriorate 

 the quality of the book. 



Cephalaspis. — "Will you kindly inform me where I can see a late paper of 

 Prof. Page's, entitled, ' Contributions towards the restoration of the Cephalaspis 

 and its kindred ? ' — G. R." 



Amateur Geologists' Association — The Editor of the Geologist has received 

 letters for Mr. Heyward, but cannot forward them, not knowing that gentleman's 

 address. 



