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Contents
| EDITOR’S NOTES | 306 |
| ORIGINAL ARTICLES | 307 |
| Introduction – Geological Pioneers in the Lake District | 307 |
| Jonathan Otley, Dr Alan Smith | 309 |
| Adam Sedgwick, Prof David Oldroyd | 315 |
| John Bolton, David Kelly | 325 |
| John Ruthven, Dr Alan Smith | 329 |
| Robert Harkness, Margaret Fox | 333 |
| James Clifton Ward, Dr Alan Smith | 341 |
| Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Dennis Dickins | 349 |
| John Goodchild and Frederick Trotter, Dr Angus Lunn | 353 |
| John Marr, Prof David Oldroyd | 361 |
| Alfred Harker, Alfred Harker | 381 |
| Edmund Garwood, Murray Mitchell | 385 |
| Thomas Hay, Chris Thompson | 389 |
| John Green, Margaret Bennett | 395 |
| Charles Edmonds, Mervyn Dodd | 399 |
| Tom Eastwood, Mervyn Dodd | 403 |
| Sydney Hollingworth, Dr Eric Robinson | 407 |
| George Mitchell, Dr David Millward and Dr Jack Soper | 415 |
| Francis J Monkhouse, Mervyn Dodd and Fred Lawton | 421 |
| Edgar Shackleton, Tom Shipp | 425 |
| EXCURSION NOTES | 429 |
| The Geomorphology of Aughertree Fell, Darrel Swift | 429 |
| Evolution of Mountain Summits in Northern Lake District | 429 |
| Roughten Gill and Silver Gill Mines | 430 |
| The Cockermouth Lavas and other features around Isel | 433 |
| The St Bees Sandstone above Barrowmouth | 434 |
| Hilton and Scordale Beck | 436 |
| The Rigs site at Beck Wythop | 437 |
| The Building stones of Keswick | 438 |
| The Carboniferous Limestone of Whitbarrow | 438 |
| Threlkeld Mining Museum and Quarry | 440 |
| Volcanic and Igneous Rocks in Wasdale | 442 |
| Geology of the Area around Floutern Tarn | 443 |
| List of other excursions held in 1998-99 | 448 |
| LECTURE NOTES | 449 |
| The Geology of the Islay area, Angela Marchant and Margaret Fox | 449 |
| Gold mineralisation in the south eastern desert, Egypt | 450 |
| The metamorphic history of the Borrowdale Volcanic Group, north-west England, Dr Nicola Meler | 451 |
| The geology of the West Cumbria haematite deposits, Mervyn Dodd | 455 |
| The Iron Ore Mines of West Cumbria, Mervyn Dodd | 457 |
| The 1996 Vatnajokull eruption and Jokulhlaup, Dr Chris Hunt | 460 |
| Geophysical logging techniques, Chris Thompson | 461 |
| Geology and risk assessment, Dr Jeremy Dearlove | 463 |
| Geomorphology in the last millennium, Dr Jeff Warburton | 467 |
| Members Evening, The Ries Meteorite Crator, Angela Marchant; Iceland, Mervyn Dodd | 472 |
| From Laurussia with love… a tale of ancient cold wars, Dr Nick Riley | 473 |
| Short Lectures following the AGM | 474 |
| NOTE ON THE RECORD OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGS, ANNUAL DINNERS, AND OBITUARY NOTICES | 477 |
| LIST OF SOCIETY OFFICERS AND COUNCIL – 1999 & 2000 | 478 |