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CHAPTER XX. 



THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION PWLLHELI PEEBLES 

 SHADOWS. 



IN the year 1876, the meeting of the British Associa- 

 tion was held at Glasgow. In such a centre the 

 meeting of such a society was likely to put the local 

 naturalists on their mettle. Apart from the annual 

 report of the association, some books of permanent 

 value were the result. 



One of the volumes called forth in preparation for 

 the meeting was a " Catalogue of the Western Scottish 

 Fossils," compiled by James Armstrong, John Young, 

 and David Robertson, with an introduction by Pro- 

 fessor Young. The latter, in his preface, remarks 

 that "no one who has not tried it knows the labour 

 such lists involve," and he also observes that " Mr. 

 David Robertson has supplied a great want by his 

 complete list of glacial fossils." 



Another volume consisted of two parts, the one 

 entitled " Notes on the Fauna and Flora of the West 

 of Scotland," this being a sort of introduction to the 

 other part, which formed the bulk of the volume, under 

 the title, "A Contribution towards a Complete List of 

 the Fauna and Flora of Clydesdale and the West of 



