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that a considerable amount of upheaval had taken place since the 

 country was first inhabited by the Celts. " Inch," or " Innis," 

 signifies an island, so when those Inches first got their names they 

 m.ust, as their names imply, have been islands, although they are now 

 elevated above the level of the Carse. Some of thein are now more 

 than two miles distant from the Firth of Tay. The author described 

 Inchyra, Inchcoonans, Megginch, East and West Inchmichael, 

 Inchmartine, and Inchture, their heights above the level of the 

 sea varying from 35 to 60 feet. These islands appear to 

 have been first cultivated in a circular shape, and the Eev. 

 Dr. Grierson, of Errol, has suggested that this mode of culti- 

 vation is the most probable explanation of the " curved ridges " 

 which are still so characteristic of the Carse agriculture, and 

 which cannot now be altered or obliterated. On looking over 

 the register of Crown charters issued under the Great Seal of 

 Scotland, Mr. Smyth found one by King James IV. in favour of 

 WiUiam Earl of Errol, dated 17th June, 1512, of the sixth part of 

 the lands of " Inchmertyn," and it bears internal evidence that even 

 then the bomidaries of " Inchmertyn " were considered ancient. It 

 is uncertain at what time those Inches got their names, but the 

 nature of the ground and the amount of elevation of each above the 

 Tay and the Carse showed that there must have been an upheaval of 

 25 to 30 feet since a Celtic population inhabited the Lowlands of 

 Scotland. In the second part of his subject, Mr. Smyth said he 

 ■ would lay before the society the evidences of upheaval of our shores 

 between the period when a Celtic population occupied the Lowlands 

 of Scotland and the present time. 



A discussion followed, in which Mr. George C. Haswell, Mr. D. J. 

 Brown, the Kev. George Bartholomew, the Eev. James Stormonth, 

 Mr. George Lj^on, and Mr. James Haswell, M.A., took part, after 

 which the vice-president conveyed the thanks of the society to Mr. 

 Smyth for his paper. 



Geological Society of Glasgow. — I. February 8th. — A lecture 

 was delivered at the Andersonian University, by JDavid Page, Esq., 

 F.E.S.E., F.G.S., on "Ice, its Forms and Functions." 



II. The fifth monthly meeting of the session was held in the 

 Society's Eoom, Andersonian University, on March 1st. The Eev. 

 H. W. Crosskey, Vice-President, in the chair. 



Mr. John Young exhibited four species of Foraminifera, from the 

 Kmestones and shales of the Lanarkshire coal-field. They belong 

 to three genera, two of which are allied to Textidaria and Trunca- 

 tulina. Mr. Yoang stated that, until last year, no remains of Forami- 

 nifera had been recorded from the Scottish Carboniferous strata. 



Mr. E. W. Skipsey read a paper on " The Clyde, as a Eiver and 

 Firth : its Course, Eocks, and Geological Aspects," in which he 

 stated his belief, that since the deposition of the Boulder-drift, the 

 tidal wave had not reached much, if any, higher than its present 

 limits in the river. At and around Carmyle the gravels were 



