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NATURE 



[June 22, 1916 



and its last in 1889, after it had become the Royal 

 Geological Society of Ireland. There is no doubt that 

 a knowledge of the aims of geology was more gener- 

 ally diffused in Ireland during the fifty years of its 

 existence than is the case at the present day. Though 

 the publication of researches outside London is natur- 

 ally regretted by dwellers in the capital, a proper 

 system of exchange and distribution after all renders 

 reference easy. The index of geological literature, 

 published annually by the Geological Society of Lon- 



the frequent occurrence of analcite. An international 

 character is given to the Transactions by a paper by 

 R. M. Craig on Prince Charles Foreland, Spits- 

 bergen, the peaks of which are so- conspicuous from 

 the entrance to the Ice Fjord. A. McEwen Peach 

 follows with an account of the pre-Glacial platform 

 and raised beaches of the island (Fig. i). The plat- 

 form has the same relation to the submerged valleys 

 as that discovered by Maufe and Wright in southern 

 Ireland. 



Fig. I.— West coast of Prince Charles Foreland, showing trie ui-^secieu ijaLkbone Ridge " and the coasi.Ti piaiii>rin \\ im lais-ju 



From the Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society. 



icaes and lagoons. 



don, now makes the place of publication unimportant. 

 The recognition of other cities as centres of research 

 requires a certain magnanimity, but is in itself a 

 stimulus to cultured minds throughout the country. 

 The claims, moreover, on the resources of metropolitan 

 societies enable the publications of smaller bodies to 

 compete successfully as regards style of issue and 

 illustration. 

 The Edinburgh Geological Society has just published 



The Geological Society of Glasgow, in part 3 of 

 vol. XV. of its Transactions (igi6), devotes itself to 

 the basin of the Clyde. Prof. J. W. Gregory (p. 310) 

 regards the hanging valleys on the walls of Loch Long 

 as pre-Glacial in origin. W. R. Smellie describes in 

 detail the igneous rocks of Bute, after a field-survey 

 of the island (Fig. 2). P. Macnair correlates the 

 Lower Carboniferous limestones of North Lanark- 

 shire with those farther to the south, in a paper that 





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Fig. 2.— Panorama of South Bute, showing escatpments of lava uptiltsd towards the right, and a raised beach in the foreground. 

 From the Transactions of the Geological Society of Glasgow. 



part 3 of volume x. of its Transactions. It contains 

 a noteworthy and beautifully illustrated paper on the 

 incorporation of dolomite in an intrusive basaltic sill 

 at Gullane, near North Berwick, by T. Cuthbert Day, 

 who also traces similarly intimate associations of 

 igneous rock and sediments at Weak Law, where the 

 con^'posite mass resembles a fault-breccia or a con- 

 glomerate. Mrs. Wallace describes volcanic rocks 

 from the necks along the coast of Fife, and points out 



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reveals characteristically patient research in river- 

 banks and quarries. 



The Liverpool Geological Society continues to inves- 

 tigate the Triassic strata of the district. In part 2 of 

 vol. xii. of the Proceedings (1915), this work is repre- 

 sented by F. T. Maidwell, H. W. Greenwood, and 

 C. B. Travis. There is an interesting reference in a 

 paper by the two latter authors to "boulders of stron- 

 tium " in the Keuper Marls of Bristol. These are pre- 



