The Scoiiisli Naturalist. 267 



VIII. God's Treasure-House in Scotland : a History of the 

 Times, Mines, and Lands in the Southern Highlands. By 

 the Rev. Dr Forteous, of Wanlockhead. With Geological 

 Map by Knipe, and woodcut illustrations by Dr Porteous 

 himself. 1876. 



There is a special chapter on " Gold and Gold-finders," em- 

 bodying the results of the author's own inquiries during a resi- 

 dence of nine years in. the very centre of the Crawford- Lindsay 

 gold-field. 



On the map, Mr Knipe has shown, as he has done in the last 

 edition (1875) c)f his '' Geological Map of the British Isles," 

 the chiQi localities of gold finds and workings in the Crawford- 

 Lindsay district. 



IX. Historical Notes on the occurrence of Gold in the South 

 of Scotland. By Patrick Dudgeon, F.R.S.E., F.S.A. Scot. 

 A 4to pamphlet, printed in 1875 ^^r private circulation, and 

 for the purposes of a bazaar at Glasgow in aid of Miss 

 Clugston's Home for Incurables. 



Its most noteworthy feature is the frontispiece, a beautiful 

 coloured lithograph of the Genimell quartzite, bearing the title 

 " Auriferous quartz — actual size — found at Wanlockhead by 

 Andrew Gemmell, miner, in 1872." 



What appears to be virtually the same pamphlet — minus the 

 plate, and with sundry alterations in the text — was published as 

 a paper, with the same title, in the first number of ' The Mineral- 

 ogical Magazine' for August 1876. 



X. Paper on the Silurian Rocks of the South of Scotland : and 



on the Gold Districts of Wanlockhead and Leadhills. By 

 Professor Harkness. In the ' Quarterly Journal of the Geo- 

 logical Society,' vol. viii., p. 396. 1852. 



XI. History of the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire. By G. Vere 

 Irving, F.S.A. Scot., and Alexander Murray. 3 vols. 1865. 



XII. The following works by R. W. Cochran Patrick, F.S.A. 

 Scot. 



(i.) Records of the Coinage of Scotland, from the earliest 

 period to the Union. 2 vols. 1877. 



(2.) Notes on the Annals of the Scottish Coinage. Com- 

 municated to the Numismatic Society of London in 



1873- 

 (3.) Records of Mining in Scotland. 1878. 



