GEOLOGY OF THE LOTHIANS.* 



ROBERT JAMES HAY CUNNINGHAM, Esq. M. W. S. 



INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 



In offering this essay to the consideration of the Wernerian 

 Natural History Society, the author considers that, for the 

 satisfaction of those to whose scrutiny it is submitted, he is 

 called upon to state some of the circumstances attending 

 its production. The necessary investigations were com- 

 menced in the beginning of the summer of the year 1834, 

 and continued with little interruption till the middle of July, 

 after which they were suspended till March 1835 ; and 

 since that period, up to this date, few weeks have elapsed 

 without more or less time being spent in examination. The 

 deficiencies of the essay, therefore, whatever these may be, 

 cannot be referred to its hasty formation ; and if its short- 

 ness be considered as hardly agreeing with these state- 



* The Wernerian Natural History Society's Honorary Premium of 

 Twenty Sovereigns was adjudged to Mr Cunningham for this Essay. 



