The Scottish Naturalist. 357 



Professor Jameson's class at the said university, he was certainly 

 not in a condition to decide upon the nativity of a piece of gold- 

 quartz, and could not have been for some years previously to 

 1847. 



I examined alP the specimens of Scotch gold in the Museum 

 of Science and Art, Edinburgh, in July 1877, under the auspices 

 of Professor Archer himself, taking notes at the time of their 

 characters. Among others, I found an angular lump of aurif- 

 erous quartz labelled as " from Leadhills, Scotland," 1837. It was 

 duly enumerated among other " Museum Specimens of Native 

 Scottish Gold," in a paper bearing that title submitted to the 

 Geological Society of Edinburgh in December 1877, "^y com- 

 ment upon it being that it has more appearance of weathering 

 than the Gemmell specimen, but contains a small quantity (in 

 specks) of apparently the same sort of gold. 



AVhen on a former occasion, some years previously, I inspected 

 all the Scotch gold exhibits in the same Museum, I found what 

 I described at the time^ as " two small nuggets labelled Native 

 Gold in Quartz: Leadhills, 1837 (Traill). Here the quartz is 

 still adherent, just as it is in nuggets from the Waipori diggings 

 of Otago, N.Z." 3 



The specimen I saw in 1877 labelled " Leadhills, 1837," may 

 or may not be the Jameson specimen referred to by Mr Dud- 

 geon. The introduction of Professor Traill's name only adds to 

 the puzzle. When I attended the Natural History Class of the 

 University of Edinburgh in 1847, Professor Traill was the substi- 



1 Nevertheless, I am told that there is one specimen which I did not see, 

 and which, if so, must be exhibited in a different part of the Museum — viz., 

 what it will be convenient to speak of as the Martin nugget, from the name 

 of the gentleman, the late Dr Martin of Leadhills, by whose son it has been 

 lent to the Museum. [ Vide Dr Porteous's ' Treasure-House,' p. 51, and letter 

 on the gold of Wanlockhead and Leadhills in the ' Scotsman ' of January 4, 

 1878. On application to Mr Galletly, Sub-Curator of the Museum, I found 

 my surmise correct : for he was good enough to explain, in a memorandum 

 of date July 1878, that "the specimen of Native Gold which belonged to the 

 late Dr Martin of Leadhills, and was lent to us by his son, is shown in a 

 case containing models of large nuggets, auriferous quartz, &c., in what is 

 called the Metallurgical Hall of the main Jloor of the building here ; " while 

 the other specimens of Scotch gold are to be found in the galleiy above. 



2 Vide paper on "The Gold-Fields of Scotland," in the 'Journal of the 

 Royal Geological Society of Ireland,' vol. ii., 1869, p. 180, footnote. 



3 Or as has been described in Wanlockhead Nuggets in the * Scottish Nat- 

 uralist,' p. 211. 



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