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in honour of the hero mentioned above. It was a 

 very modest request. Unfortunately, this memoir was 

 was not published in the transactions of the Geological 

 Society, but, through the kindness of Dr. Gordon, Birnie, 

 we have seen a MS. copy. Dr. Gordon, in his able paper on 

 " The Geology of the Lower or Northern Part of the Pro- 

 vince of Moray," published in the Edinburgh New Phil- 

 osophical Journal for Jan., 1859, complains bitterly of the 

 injustice done to his friend Dr. Malcolmson, in his paper not 

 having been published. Dr. Gordon was his fellow-labourer, 

 and there were not two more enthusiastic geologists any- 

 where, and it is to their labours and that of Mr. Patrick 

 Duff that the geology of the county is so well known. If 

 Dr. Malcolmson did not get justice from the Geological 

 Society of that time, his worth and his labours are fully 

 recognised now, and we take this opportunity of paying a 

 tribute to his memory. But there were other workers 

 in the same field. Moray had a host of able men 

 then. Chief among these, apart from the three men- 

 tioned, were Mr. Stables, Cawdor, and Mr. John Martin, 

 the late Secretary of this Association. All those gentle- 

 men have written upon the Findhorn, and latterly the 

 work has been continued by Messrs. Home and Peach 

 of the Geological Survey. Under these circumstances, 

 with the space at command, it is only necessary to give 

 a brief resum6 of the part gone over in our excursion. 



The geological formation which underlies the rich and 

 fertile plains of Moray is vast and varied. The Middle 

 and Upper Old Red Sandstone is found scattered through- 

 out France, Belgium, Germany, Russia, and England, as 

 well as in many other places. It is largely developed in 

 Devou shire, which gave the Old Red its other name of 

 Devonian, and which is perhaps the better name of the 

 two. The term Red is misleading, and was simply given 



