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Contents
| EDITOR’S NOTES | 484 |
| A thermal contraction crack in bedrock at Braithwaite, Cumbria D. K. Farrow, M. G. Burnley, S. P. Oxford and A. Palmer | 485 |
| Garrigill: evidence of global warming, ancient and modern, Dr B. Webb | 497 |
| Building and decorative stones in Whitehaven, M. Fox | 505 |
| The building stones of Penrith and district, E. Skipsey | 511 |
| The Bowder Stone, Grange-in-Borrowdale, Cumbria, Dr R. A. Smith | 525 |
| On the genesis of shear-zone-hosted gold mineralisation in south Eastern Desert, Egypt, Dr W. E. G. Taylor & Dr Y. A. El Kazzaz | 540 |
| The Solway region in the late Pleistocene, Dr R. P. K. Clark | 553 |
| EXCURSION REPORTS | 587 |
| Borrowdale Volcanic Group rocks in Cat Gill in the footsteps of James Clifton Ward, Dr R. A. Smith | 587 |
| The Furness of John Bolton: Lindal, Plumpton, Gleaston and Stank, D. A. Kelly | 588 |
| Thomas Hay: Glenridding, Dr R. P. K. Clark and Dr R. A. Smith | 591 |
| Watch Hill and Elva Plain through the eyes of Tom Eastwood, D. Dickins | 593 |
| In Charles Edmonds’ Day: Longlands and Clints, M. B. Dodd | 596 |
| The Carboniferous limestones of Yewbarrow and Beck Head, Dr I. Burgess | 598 |
| List of other excursions held in 2000 | 602 |
| EXCURSIONS 2001 | 603 |
| LECTURE REPORTS 2000 – 2001 | 604 |
| Eruptions on the volcanic island of Montserrat: monitoring and understanding an explosive volcano, Dr S. Loughlin | 604 |
| A tale of two volcanoes: Mount St Helens and Kilauae, Dr R. A. Smith | 606 |
| Limestone pavements in Cumbria – their origin and conservation , S. Webb | 608 |
| Other lectures | 610 |
| LECTURE REPORTS 2001 – 2002 | 611 |
| Dry stone walls, Dr E. Robinson | 611 |
| Volcanic eruptions under Iceland’s glaciers, H. Tuffen | 612 |
| Rivers, landforms and man – a system in equilibrium?, Dr S. Bradley | 614 |
| Mam Tor, C. Arkwright | 616 |
| The ice age in Lakeland, Dr R. A. Smith | 620 |
| A geologist in the Andes of Ecuador, Dr R. Hughes | 622 |
| Annual General Meetings | 624 |
| Annual Dinners | 625 |
| The Society Small Awards for Students | 626 |
| Obituaries | 627 |