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Refreshed in mind and body from a summer full of splendid excursions, members of the Society may look forward to an equally stimulating (mentally at least) programme of lectures for 1981 - 82. For example, during the first four months of 1982 the list of titles indicates considerable geological and geographical diversitv (see below). There is. we suqqest. something to interest everybody. We trust the same may be said of this Edition's contributions and we take this opportunity to thank all the contributors.

LECTURE PROGRAMME, JANUARY to APRIL 1982
The latter half of this Session's lecture programme includes the following:
 

13th January	Dr N.M.S. Rockó"Aspects of the Sunda Volcanic Arc in Java and Sumatra, Indonesia".
27th January	Presentation of the Clough Memorial Medal for 1980-81 to Dr J. B. Sissons ó "The ice-dammed lakes of Glen Roy and vicinity".
17th February	Dr M. Leeder ó "Upper Palaeozoic sedimentary basins".
3rd March	Fellows Night.
17th March	Dr D. G. Jenkins ó "Evolution of Cenozoic planktonic foraminifera".
29th April	James Wright Memorial Lecture. Professor D. L. Turcotte ó "Mantle convection, plate tectonics and geological processes: some recent developments."