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PROCEEDINGS Ol- THE 



Slides exhibited. 



1. The Upper Forest, Caithness-Sutherland border, 



2. Upper Forest exposed by denudation. Cairngorms. 



3. Upper Forest. Kells. 



The arctic zone between the forest beds. 



4. Arctic zone. Merrick-Kells. 



The sequence in the Southern Uplands. 



5. Sequence in Merrick-Kells. 



Turning noiv to a district far north of this, that ivas examined 

 two years later, the same features appear. 



6. Sequence in Shetland. 



When Highland areas are examined the upper beds remain in 

 general cliaracters the same, but the beds below the intercalated 

 arctic are missing. 



7. Sequence of Spey-Findhorn. 



8. The areas examined. Map. 



The meaning of the missing basal beds in Highlands. 



9. "Ways in which peat may be removed. Coire Bog torrent beds. 



10. Photo of actual example. 



11. Merrick-Kells, general view. 



12. Shetland. Burn of Dale. 



13. Cape Wrath district. 



14. The Lews mosses. 



15. The denudation of peat universal, except in boulder clay-basins 



in lowlands. Cross Fell peat-bogs. 



16. JSr. Uist denudation. 

 1(3 a. Denudation in Lews. 



17. General view of Cross Fell deposits. 



18. Peat running up to limestone outcrop. Cross Fell. 



19. The Upper Forest. Cross Fell. 



20. The altitudinal hmits of an arctic alpine flora and forest 



vegetation at successive stages since the Glacial period. 



21. Doubling of pine zone (Upper Forest). Spey-Findhorn v\ ater- 



shed. 



22. Stonechrubie, Assynt. No arctic plants at the base. 



23. Eannoch Moor. Presence of arctic plants at base and 



doubling of Upper Forest. 



24. A section on banks of Sma Lochs. , 



25. Peat coming up to base of limestone. ■ 



26. The character of the zones — Empetrum. ■ 



27. Moraines on which southern upland peat rests. The glacial 



succession. 



