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detected by my colleague, Mr Skae, in Mthsdale, at a height of 1250 
feet above the sea.” 
8. Lastly, may I be permitted, as there is still a wide field for 
farther investigation, to express a hope that the Boulder Committee 
may be re-appointed, and with additional labourers to carry on the 
work. I will he happy to he allowed to remain on the Committee, 
hut I wish to resign the honour of being Convener. I begin to find 
that I am now not able for the hill-climbing and trudging across 
Highland moors and morasses, which boulder-hunting requires. 
Edinburgh , 24 th May 1878. 
At a Meeting held this day, the Council re-appointed the Boulder 
Committee, with the addition of Dr Andrew Fleming, M.D. ; 
William Jolly, Inspector of Schools, Inverness ; and Balph Bichard- 
son, Secretary of the Edinburgh Geological Society ; and agreed to 
express a hope, that Mr Milne Home would continue Convener of 
the Committee. 
The Council further agreed, that the “ Kemarks ” by Mr Milne 
Home, at the Society’s meeting on the 20th inst., when he presented 
the Committee’s Fourth Beport, appear in the Society’s Proceedings, 
along with the Beport. 
J. H. Balfour, Secretary. 
The Boulder Committee now consists of the following Fellows : — 
Sir Bobert Christison, Bart. 
Sir Charles Wyville Thomson. 
Bev. Thomas Brown, Edinburgh. 
Dr Andrew Fleming, M.D., Edinburgh. 
Professor Archibald Geikie, Edinburgh. 
William Jolly, Inverness. 
Dr Arthur Mitchell, M.D., Edinburgh. 
Professor Nicol, Aberdeen. 
Balph Bichardson, Edinburgh. 
Thomas Stevenson, C.E., Edinburgh. 
David Milne Home, LL.D. {Convener). 
