146 Dr Pater son 07i the Fossil Organic Remains 



tion. 3. The old red sandstone, which, like the yellow variety^ 

 yields abundantly organic remains, at Dairsie, Birkhill, Park- 

 hill, and Clashbennie, resembling, if not essentially the same with, 

 those which occur at Drumdryan. 4. The grey sandstone, 

 which is the lowest member of the series, and which is distinctly 

 characterised in Fife, Strathearn, and Forfar districts by the 

 remains of those culmiferous vegetables, which are so numerous- 

 ly distributed throughout the deposits. 



On the Fossil Organic Remains Jbund in the Coal Formation 

 at Wardie, near Neiohaven. By Robert Patehson, M.D. 

 Member of the Wernerian Natural History Society of Edin- 

 burgh, &c.* (Communicated by the Author.) 



It is well known to geologists, that the coal formation in Scot- 

 land is situtated in the great valley of the Scottish lowlands, 

 separating the primitive country of the north of Scotland from 

 the transition series of the southern border ; and that a line 

 dravvn from the mouth of the Tay, through Stirling to the north 

 extremity of the Island of Arran, and another nearly parallel 

 to it, from St Abb's Head on the east coast to Girvan on the 

 west, will include between them almost the whole of the coal- 

 fields in Scotland, with the exception of the basins in the Nith 

 and Esk in Dumfriesshire. 



The strata, however, to which I now particularly wish to di- 

 rect the attention of the Society, are situated at Wardie, on the 

 south coast of the Firth of Forth, about two and a half miles 

 north-east of Edinburgh, and a little beyond the village of New- 

 haven. The sea and weather, acting upon the rocks in this 

 place, have exposed them to view, and they exhibit very charac- 

 teristically the strata of the coal formation. The strata are 

 slate-clay, bitvuninous shale, sandstone, fire-clay, clay ironstone, 

 with beds of black bituminous coal of no great thickness. They 

 in general dip to the south-east, excepting where they appear 



! * Read before the Wt;rnerian Natural Historj Society, in November and 

 Pecember 183(7. 



