award of the Murchison Medal in 1896, and to the Liverpool Geological Society for permission to use the various papers by me that are published in the pages of its Proceedings, and for the sympathy and help the Society has never failed to extend to me in my scientific labours. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS In the conduct of scientific investigations such as are recorded in this volume the author is thrown into communication with numerous fellow-workers, and the interchange of ideas which takes place is of the utmost value. It is my wish here to record my grateful thanks to all who have in any way assisted me, and I hope it will not be considered invidious if I single out the following names for special acknowledgment. Among my actual coworkers I must mention Mr. PHILIP HOLLAND, F.I.C., my son M. TRELEAVEN READE, and Mr. MAYNARD HUTCHINGS, F.G.S. By intercommunication of ideas, both in the field and in the study, I have probably learned most from my friend Dr. CHARLES CALLAWAY, F.G.S.; while to Dr. HENRY WOODWARD, F.R.S., my warmest acknowledgments are due for the universal kindness he has displayed during my scientific career and the impartial way in which he has thrown open the pages of the 'Geological Magazine' to my communications and freely conceded their re-use in this work. Discussion with the Rev. F. F. GRENSTED, M.A., on the physical principles underlying my theories has proved a great help. To these names I may add those of Mr. CHARLES MOORE, F.I.C., and the late Mr. NORMAN TATE, F.I.C. For reading proofs and literary help I am indebted to my son ALEYN LYELL READE, and to Messrs. HARTLEY BROTHERS, of Waterloo, for the skilful way in which they have surmounted the difficulties of photographing the experimental models. PARK CORNER, BlundellsANDS: September 1903. T. MELLARD READE. |