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A NUMBER of attempts have been made recently to co-ordinate the rapidly growing body of information on the Quaternary glaciation of England and Wales; and of these the most important is Prof. P. G. H. Boswell's presidential address to Section C (Geology) of the British Association at the York meeting in 1932. A report upon the subject was prepared by me for a committee of the International Geological Congress at Washington in July 1933, and the present article, based upon it, is published with the encouragement and approval of Dr. Victor Madsen (director of the Geological Survey of Denmark and organiser of the committee), and of Prof. Boswell. In preparing the report for Dr. Madsen's committee, I took Prof. Boswell's address as a standard of reference, with its writer's permission, and sought the opinions and constructive criticisms of some twenty-five authors actively engaged in Pleistocene research. Useful replies were received from twenty-one, all of whom are mentioned by name in the address. To the best of my knowledge, all literature published since the address was also taken into account and references to some of the outstanding papers are attached to these notes. Two groups of destructive criticism should be noted: they apply equally to all attempts at correlation:—
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L. S. Palmer, Proc. Geol. Assoc., 42, 345, 361; 1931.
W. S. Bisat, Naturalist, July and October 1932: F. M. Trotter and S. E. Hollingworth, Geol. Mag., August 1932: A. Raistrick, Trans. Northern Naturalist's Union, 1, Pt. 1, 1931, and Proc. Yorkshire Geol. Soc., 22, Pt. 1, November 1931. Dr. C. T. Trechmann is also taking an active part in these investigations.
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For bibliography and correlation of this region, with special reference to important work by Miss M. E. Tomlinson and F. W. Shotten, see some notes by the author of this review in Geol. Mag., January 1932.
J. P. T. Burchell and J. Reid Moir, ibid., and NATURE, May 27, 1933. p. 756. Authorities on this district like Messrs. Chandler, Dewey, and others are still considering special problems.
This was made especially clear in Mr. E. Dixon's, correspondence with the writer.
M. C. Burkitt, Handbook of the Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences Congress, London, 1932. (Oxford University Press.) H. Breuil, Bull. Soc. Prehistorique Francaise, No. 12, 1932.
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SANDFORD, K. The Quaternary Glaciation of England and Wales. Nature 132, 863–864 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132863a0
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