of Edinburgh, Session 1881-82. 
There are several other facts mentioned in the Report, showing 
that through the gorge or kyle which lies between East and West 
Loch Tarbert a strong current must have passed, spreading boulders 
on each side of the gorge, striating rocks, and depositing detritus. 
The heaps of detritus are chiefly on the east, i.e., the lee side of 
rocky knolls. 
3. Supplement to the Eighth Report of the Boulder Committee. 
Origin and Objects of the Committee appointed by the Royal Society 
of Edinburgh to obtain information regarding Boulders in 
Scotland. 
The subject was brought before the Society by Mr. Milne Home 
in a paper referred to in the following Minute of Council, dated 21st 
April 1871 
“ The Council, whilst authorising Mr. Milne Home’s paper “ On the 
Conservation of Remarkable Boulders in Scotland,” to be read at an 
ordinary meeting of the Society, agree, in compliance with a sugges- 
tion in the paper, to express approval of its object, and of the scheme 
proposed for carrying it out. 
“The Council nominate the following Fellows of the Society as a 
Committee to assist Mr. Milne Home in this matter. — Professor 
Christison, Professor Geikie, Professor Wyville Thomson, Rev. 
Thomas Brown, Captain White, R.E., Dr. Arthur Mitchell, Thomas 
Stevenson, C.E., Dr. Page, Professor Nicol (Aberdeen), Professor 
Young (Glasgow) ; Mr. Milne Home to be Convener. The Council 
agree to supply the Committee with copies of Mr. Milne Home’s 
paper, when printed in the Proceedings of the Society, if the 
Committee should wish to circulate it, with a view to create an 
interest in carrying out the scheme.” 
(Signed) J. H. Balfour, Secretary . 
The following extracts are made from Mr. Milne Home’s paper, 
read on 5th May 1871. 
Among many geological questions which 4 wait solution, there is 
probably none more interesting or perplexing than the agency by 
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