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QuARTFRLY .loiiKNAL OF TUB GEOLOOtRAL SOCIETY.— Thft following oircular 
lias bceu issued by tlic bociety to the Kellnws :— Sir — We are directed by the 
Cou.iCil of the Gtologiciil Society of London to transmit to you, as a Fellow 
thoieof, the foilowiug statement in regard to the Quarterly Journal of the Society, 
and to request your aid in making th; vuUie of this publication more generally 
known and appreciated, in the expectation that thus a larger cumi er of coijies 
uiiiy be roKuhirly circulaU'd amoiiq subscribers. If this can be accomplished, tlig 
Council wUl be enabled not only' to maintain the .Journal in tlie high state of 
etiiciencv which it has acquired, and even to increase its utility, but also^to 
entertain the question whetuer 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 conimujiications made to the ordinary 
meetings; cureiully e.'tecuted engravings of organic remains, diagrams, and 
soctious. 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 comprise the most eminent cultivators of British Geology ; the papers 
\vhiohthey nave contributed record almost every recent discovery of importance, 
in duscriijlions mostly drawn up by eye-witnesses ; the subjects treated of include 
all classes of lacts in the domain of positive geology and paheontology. By 
receiving this prompt and complete account of the laliours of the Geological 
Society, the Fellows, even when unable to be pi-esent at the meetings, are 
fui niched with a guide to the progi-ess of Geolo;!y at once full and trustwortliy, 
AVe doubt not tliat 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 t!;e list of subscribers to the Journal (if it be not so entered 
already), and by recommending it to the favourable attention of your friends. 
The annual subscription of a Fellow of the Society, wishing to receive the Journal 
rcf;ularly, is Tiseloe Shillings, due at the commencement of each yeai-. The 
payment can be made either to the collector, or to Mr. Charles ISichols, at the 
apartments of the ^;ociety, or by post-ofli&e order, addressed to Mr. Charles 
jNichols. 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 Shillings annually. The public are supplied through the ordinary 
channels of trade, by Messrs. Longman and Co., at Sixlmi Shillings.— have 
the honour to be, your very obedient servants, 
John Phillips, President, 
Wahrincton W. Smyth, l r, , . 
„, ,^ > becretaries. 
'J iios. Davidson, J 
Few works of a scientific character are so well managed or so creditably produced 
as the Journal of the J.onrlon Geological Sociefg. For importance of iuforuiation, 
for originality of material, for purity of diction, and for editorial care, it ranks 
among the first journals in Europe ; but we think the Council will err in reducing 
the price. The matter is now well worth the money charged, and works of a 
purely i-cientific character stand in a dilferent position altogether to those of a 
popular character. There are only a definite number of r<;ally scientific men or 
reaiiei-s in the world, and no amount of cheapness in a periodical will increase that 
number, but clieapncss in the popular or elementary work increases its circula- 
tion amongst the threat mass of society. All true geologists either take, or ought 
to take, tiie Quarterly Journal, and we agree entirely with every effort that will not 
leave out any geclcgist from the number of the subscribers ; but we do not think 
tlnit 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. 
Cepu.it.aspis. — "Will you kindly inform me where I can see a late paper of 
Prof. Pa-^e's, entitled, ' Contributions towards the restoration of the Cephalaspis 
and its kindred ? ' — G. K." 
Amatkue Geologists' Association — The Editor of the Geologist has received 
letters for Mr. Heyward, but cannot forward them, not knowing that gentleman's 
address. 
