158 Analyses of Books. [Feb, 



.9. Ohervaiions oil the Mineralogy of the Neighlourhood of St, 

 Andrew's, in Fife. By the Rev. John Fleming, Flisk. — That part 

 of Fife, which is on the north side of the Eden, consists of floetz 

 fonnations ; but the southern part of the county is composed of the 

 independent coal formation. St, Andrew's lies at the north-east 

 corner of the independent coal formation. The rocks there are of 

 two kinds: 1. Rocks belonging to the independent coal formation. 

 2. Rocks belonging to the newest floetz trap. The first are sand- 

 stone, coal, slate-clay, and clay-iron-stone. Of the second, enly 

 two rocks are described, namely, basalt and trap tuff. 



10, 11. Meteorological Observations oil a Greenland Voyage, 

 in the Ship Resolution, of Whitby, in 1811 and 1812. By Wil- 

 liam Scoresby, Jun. M.W.S. — These observations are very curious 

 and valuable, though not susceptible, of abridgment. The ship 

 went nearly as far north as latitude 70°, or within 11° of the pole. 

 The thermometer even in June was seldom much above the freezing 

 point, and sometimes below it. In these climates no summer 

 seems to exist. 



12. Analysis of Pearl Spar. By William Hisinger, Esq., of 

 Stockholm. This paper is printed in French, which 1 think rather 

 injurious to the Memoirs of the Wernerian Society. It would have 

 been better to have translated it. The result of the analysis is as 

 follows : — 



Lime 27'97 



Magnesia 21'14 



Oxide of iron 3*40 



Oxide of manganese 1*50 



Carbonic acid 44'fiO 



Loss 1-39 



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. 13. Outline of the Mineralogy of the Pentland Hills. By Pro- 

 fessor Jameson. — The Pentlands are a well known and beautiful 

 chain of mountains, situated immediately on the south side of 

 Edinburgh. They stretch from north-east to south west, passing 

 through the counties of INlid-Lothian and Peebles. The chain is 

 upwards of 20 miles in length ; but the portion described in this 

 paper is confined to the north-east part of the chain, and constitutes 

 a length of about eight miles. The rocks of which this portion are 

 composed are of two kinds, namely, transition and floetz. The 

 transition rocks lie lowest, and seem to constitute the basis of the 

 Pentlands. Three transition rocks occur, namely, clay-slate, 

 grey-vvacke, and green-stone. The two first alternate. Mr. 

 Jameson conceives that the grey-wacke is an original deposite, that 

 it never was in the state of loose sand, afterwards cemented together 

 by some unknown process ; but was originally deposited from a 

 liquid in the state in which we find it. This opinion, I conceive, 

 is very likely to be correct. The rock itself bears scarcely any 

 marks of being composed of fragments that iiad been subjected to 



