2 68 The Scottish Naturalist. 



XIII. The following Contributions to the Social and Natural 

 History of the Gold-fields and Gold-diggings of Scotland, 

 by the author. 



(i.) The Gold and Gold-fields of Scotland. Transactions 

 of the Edinburgh Geological Society, vol. i. 1868. 



(2.) The Gold-fields of Scotland : with map and other illus- 

 trations. Journal of the Royal Geological Society 

 of Ireland, vol, ii. (new series). 1869. 



(3.) The Gold-fields of Scotland. Report of the British 

 Association meeting at Dundee in 1867. 



(4.) The Gold and Gold-fields of Perthshire. Proceedings 

 of the Perthshire Society of Natural Science for 1870. 



(5.) Recent Gold Discoveries in Scotland. Reprint from the 

 'Perthshire Constitutional ' of February 18, 1874. 



(6.) The Auriferous Quartzites of Scotland. Reprint from 

 ' The Scottish Naturalist ' for April 1875. 



XIV. Geological Map of the British Isles. Byy! A. Knipe, Ksso- 

 ciate of the Geological Society of Edinburgh. Revised 

 edition of 1875. 



Distinguished from all other geological maps .of Scotland or 

 Britain by its laying down the localities of gold-diggings, gold- 

 finds, and gold-fields, both in the northern and southern High- 

 lands of Scotland. 



Native Gold in Perthshire. — The following interesting note on certain 

 limited " diggings," long ago conducted at Lochearnhead, under the auspices 

 of the late enterprising Marquis of Breadalbane, was sent to me by Mr 

 Ritchie, C.E., Perth. The writer of the note itself is Miss Stewart, of Ard- 

 vorlich, on Lochearnside, and what she says is this : — 



" Some gold was found in the neighbourhood — on the Breadalbane pro- 

 perty — on the hillside near the railway station at Lochearnhead, where an 

 ■excavation was made and -was worked for some time. But as the small 

 quantity of gold found was not likely to be remunerative, the working was 

 given up. It was in the late Marquis's time ; and he spent much money in 

 trying to find minerals of all kinds on his estate, having in his employ an ex- 

 perienced mineralogist." 



All such accounts of former gold-digging in Scotland are worthy of record, 

 especially in connection with the general interest presently existing on the 

 subject ; and it is in the hope that my example may be followed by others 

 who may be in possession of authentic and unpublished information con- 

 cerning gold-finding or gold-working in any part of Scotland, that the present 

 note on a small experimental Perthshire digging, undertaken by a nobleman 

 who displayed great mineralogical enterprise, has been contributed to the 

 * Scottish Naturalist.' — W. Lauder-Lindsay, Gilgal, Perth. 



