I N D E X .
Agassiz, Louis, Biographical Note, 90. Agates in Western Australia, 12. Ailsa Craig, Riebeckite from, 265. Ailsyte, Definition of, 266. Alethopteris lonchitica, Occurrence of,
in Carboniferous Beds of Loch Ryan, 111.
Allan, Thomas, Biographical Note on, 84.
American Oil, Production of, 71. Analcime with faces of the cube,
Localities for, 242, VI. Analcime with New Forms, 241. Analyses; Granite (Macadam), 394.
Natural Gas (quoted), 65. Porphyrite (Macadam), 401. Quartz-felsite (Macadam), 410. Rhyolite (Mackie), 460. Sandstones (Mackie), 448.
Andesite of Dumyat, 290. Anglesey, Occurrence of Sillimanite
Gneisses, 230. Anticlinal Theory of Oil Distribution,
60. Apatite in Cheviot Rocks, 402-409. Apophyllite from Cape Colony, 252. Applecross, Intercrossing of Boulders,
38. Volcanic Necks in, 35.
Arran, Notes on the Geology of, 268. Ash Neck at Philpstoun, 477. Australia, Western, Commercial
Minerals, 6. Geological Features of
the Coast of, 174. Goldfields of, 1.
Baku, Production of Oil in, 73. Basalt, Spherulitic, from Skye, 381. BELL, DUGALD, Glaciation of the West
of Scotland, 49. On the Orientation of Boulders,
108. Ben More, Mull, Minerals of, 223. Black Hill, Pentlands, Phenocrysts of
Micropegmatite in Felsite of, 483. Black, Joseph, Biographical Note on,
84. Borehole at Calton Hill, 254.
Borehole at North Berwick, 236. Boue*, Ami, Biographical Note on, 85. Boulder clay at Leith Docks, Origin
of, 315. Boulders, Intercrossing in Applecross,
38. Orientation of, 108.
Bowland Shales, Thickness of, 338. Boylestone Quarry, Barrhead, Anal
cime of, 241. Bryce, James, Biographical Note on,
93. Bryson, Alexander, Biographical
Note on, 88. BROWN, CAMPBELL, On the Occurrence
of Gasteropods (Platyostomella Scotoburdigalensis) in a Lepidodendron from Craigleith Quarry, Edinburgh, 244.
Buckland, William, Biographical Note on, 91.
Cadell, Henry, Biographical Note on, 93.
CADELL, HENRY M., The New Geological Map of the Edinburgh District, 15.
Petroleum and Natural Gas, their Geological History and Production, 51.
Notes on the Section in the New Haymarket Tunnel, 119.
Note on the Occurrence of Vivianite in an old Lake Bed at Cauldhame, near Linlithgow, 173.
Some Geological Features of the coast of Western Australia, 174.
A Visit to the New Zealand Volcanic Zone, 183.
On an Ash Neck in the Broxburn Shale Workings at Philpstoun, 477.
Calton Hill, Borehole at, 259. Relation to the Rocks in the
Neighbourhood, 139. CALVERT, A. E., Western Australia
and its Goldfields, 1. Cambrian Rocks of Warwickshire,
231. 497
498 INDEX.
Cambrian Rocks of Merionethshire, 254.
Canisp Feldspars, 494. Canyons, Formation of in Volcanic
Ash, New Zealand, 190. Cape Colony, Apophyllite from, 252. Carbonia: Its Horizons and Condi
tions of Occurrence in Scotland, 420.
Carboniferous Fossils of Viewforth, Largo, Fife, 488.
— Rocks of Arran, 270. - Rocks in Great Britain, Sub
divisions of, 332. — Rocks of England and Scot
land, Correlation of, 361. Caspian Sea, Oil Region of the, 62. Cauldhame, Occurrence of Vivianite
at, 173. Caves : Kent's Cavern, 21.
Mentone, 27. CementBtone Fossils, Occurrence in
Glacial Deposits at Moffat, 233. Chambers, Robert, Biographical Note
on, 94. Cheviot Hills, Petrology, 390. Climate, Feldspars in Sedimentary
Rocks as Indicators of, 443. Climate in Britain as indicated by
the Sandstones, 203. CLOUGH, C. T., and ALFRED HARKER,
On a Coarsely Spherulitic Basalt in Skye, 381.
Coulin Forest, Ross-shire, Valley Moraines in, 145.
Copper Mines of Little Namaqualand,
Copper Production of Namaqualand, 31.
Western Australia, 5. Craigleith, Occurrence of Gasteropods
in Lepidodendron stem at, 244. .Cretaceous Fossils of Moreseat, Aber
deenshire, 277. Croll, Jame", Biographical Note on,
98. CrolTs Glacial Theory, 77. Cunningham, R. J'. Hay, Biographi
cal Note on, 86. CURRIE,. JAMES, Notes on a Visit to
the Copper Mines of Little Namaqualand, 30.
On an Iona Erratic, containing Withamite, 115.
The Minerals of the Tertiary Eruptive Rocks of Ben More, Mull, 223.
On Apophyllite from Cape Colony, 252.
Note on the Feldspars of Canisp, 494.
Darwin, Charles, Biographical Note on, 86.
Davidson, Thomas, Biographical Note on, 96.
DAVIS, PROF. W. M., Note on CrolPs Glacial Theory, 77.
Desert Conditions in Britain, 203. Devonian Period in Britain, Suggested
Desert Conditions, 219. Suggested
. Glacial Conditions, 461. Dumyat, Ochils, Hypersthene-Ande-
site of, 290. Dykes and Sills of the Cheviot Hills,
397. Edinburgh Geological Society, Foun
dation of, 91. Edinburgh, The New Geological Map,
15, Earthquake, Hereford, of December
17, 1896, Enstatite in Cheviot Rocks, 392, 396,
409. (Hypersthene) of Dumyat, 291.
Erratic in Iona containing Withamite, 115.
Erratics in Applecross, 40. in Boulder Clay at Leith, 314.
n e a r Inverness, 417.
Feldspars of Canisp, 494. Similar Orientation of Ortho
clase and Albite crystals, 495. Relative susceptibility to de
cay, 447, 494. Degradation under humid and
arid conditions, 206. In Sedimentary Rocks as In
dicators of the Conditions of Contemporaneous Climate, 443.
Felsophyre of the Cheviot Hills, 403. Fleming, John, Biographical Note
on, 87. FLETT, JOHN S., A Hypersthene-
Andesite from Dumyat (Ochils), 290.
On an Ash Neck in the Broxburn Shale Workings at Philpstoun, 481.
On Phenocrysts of Micropegmatite, 482.
Forbes, Edward, Biographical Note on, 90.
Forbes, James D., Biographical Note on, 90
Gas, Natural, Composition of, 64. Gasteropods, occurrence in a Lepido
dendron from Craigleith Quarry, Edinburgh, 244.
•INDEX. 499
Geological Society of Edinburgh, Foundation of, 91.
Glacial Deposits near Moffat, Note on the occurrence of Limestone Nodules containing Cementstone Fossils in, 233.
Striation in S. W. Ross, 39, Theory, Note on Croll's, 77.
Glaciation of the West of Scotland, 49.
Gneiss, Sillimanite, in Anglesey, 230. Goldfields of Western Australia, 1. Goldfield, Sutherland, Notes on the,
100. GOODCHILD, J. G., Some of the Modes
of Origin of Oil Shales, with Remarks upon the Geological History of some other Hydrocarbon Compounds, 121.
Notes on the Minerals of the Hilderston Silver Mines, Linlithgow, 201.
Desert Conditions in Britain, 203.
• Remarks upon a Recent Boring for Water at North Berwick, 236.
Notes on a Borehole through the Rocks of the Calton Hill, 259.
Geological Notes on the Excavations at the Leith Dock Exten sion,1897, 312.
Dr Heddle and his Geological Work, 317.
Granite of Arran, 274. Age of, 276.
of the Cheviots, 390. • Analyses of, 394.
Granophyre of the Cheviots, 404, GREENLY, E., A Triassic Land-Sur
face, 45. Notes on the Sutherland Gold-
field, 100. On the occurrence of Silli
manite Gneisses in Central Anglesey, 230.
Incipient Metamorphism in the Harirech Grits, 254
The Hereford Earthquake of December 17, 1896, considered in relation to Geological Structure in t)te Bangor-Anglesey Region, 469.
Greenock, Lord, Biographical Note on, 86.
Greensand Fossils from Drift Beds at Moreseat, Cruden, E. Aberdeenshire, 277.
GUNN, W. , Notes on the Geology of the Isle of Arran, 268.
Notes on the correlation of the Lower Carboniferous Rocks of England and Scotland, 361.
Hall, Sir James, Biographical Note on, 83.
HARKER, ALFRED, and C. T. CLOUGH, On a Coarsely Spherulitic ('* Vario-litic") Basalt in Skye, 381.
Harlech Grits, Incipient Metamorphism, 254.
Hay market, New Tunnel, 119. HEDDLE, PROF. M. F., On Analcime
with New Forms, 241. On the Crystalline Forms of
Riebeckito. 265. The Minerals of the Storr,
328. Heddie, Prof., M.F., Obituary Notice,
317. HENDERSON, JOHN, On the Calton Hill
and its relation to the Rocks in the Neighbourhood, 139.
Hibbert, Samuel, Biographical Note on, 84.
Hilderston Silver Mines, 201. HIND, D R WHEELTON, The Subdivi
sions of the Carboniferous Series in Great Britain, and some of their European Equivalents, 332.
Hlinik, Hungary, Phenocrysts of Micropegmatite in Liparite from, 482.
Home, David Milne, Biographical Note on, 92.
HORNB, J., On Two Volcanic Necks in Applecross, Ross-shire, 35.
The Intercrossing of Boulders in the Applecross Mountains, 38.
Note on the occurrence of Alethopteris lonchitica in the Carboniferous Beds of Loch Ryan, 111,
- Note on a Band of Fossilferous Ironstone in the Cambrian Rocks of West Ross-shire, 113.
Obituary Notice of Hugh Miller, 132.
On the Relation of Valley Moraines to Underlying Strata in Coulin Forest, Ross-shire, 145.
Howarth, Sir Henry H., Flood Theory of, 21.
Hutton, James, Biographical Note on, 82.
Hyalithes Sandstones from Nuneaton, 231.
Hypersthene-Andesite from Dumyat (Ochils), 290.
Intercrossing of Boulders in the Apple-cross Mountains, 38.
Iona, Occurrence of Withamite in a boulder at, 115.
Ironstone, Fossiliferous in the Cambrian Rocks of West Ross-shire, 113.
500 INDEX.
Jamesoo, Robert, Biographical Note on, 84.
Jardine, Sir William, Biographical Note on, 89.
JOHNSTONE, JOHN T., Note on the Occurrence of Limestone Nodules containing Cementstone Fossils in Glacial Deposits near Moffat, 233.
JONES, PROF. T. RUPERT, JAMES W. KIRKBY, and D R JOHN YOUNG, On Carbonia : its Horizons and Conditions of Occurrence in Scotland especially in Fife, 420.
Kent's Cavern, 21. Kimberley, Cape Colony, Apophyllite
from, 252. KIRKBY, JAMES W., PROF. T. RUPERT
JONES, and D R JOHN YOUNG, On Carbonia: its Horizons and Conditions of Occurrence in Scotland, especially in Fife, 420.
On the Occurrence of. Carboniferous Limestone Fossils at Viewforth, near Largo, Fife, 488.
Kitchen Midden at Port Nolloth, Namaqualand, 31.
Kugel structure in Dumyat Ande-site, 293.
KYNASTON, HERBERT, Contributions to the Petrology of the Cheviot Hills, 390.
Land-Surface, A Triassic, Biographical note on, 45.
LAPWORTH, PROF. CHARLES, Note on Cambrian Hyolithes Sandstones from Nuneaton, 231.
Lauder, Sir Thomas Dick, Biographical note on, 89.
Leith Dock Extension, 1897, Geological Notes on, 312.
Lepidodendron Stem, Occurrence of Gasteropods in, 244.
Occurrence of Ostracoda in, 422.
Loch Scridain, Minerals of, Volcanic Rocks of, 226.
Logan, Sir William R., Biographical Note on, 86.
Lycopodites in the Old Red Sandstone of Scotland, 379, 371, 368.
Lyell, Sir Charles, Biographical Note on, 92.
Lyon, George, Biographical Note on, 93.
Macculloch, John, Biographical Note on, 89.
MACKIE, W . , The Sands and Sandstones of Eastern Moray, 148.
MACKIE, W. , On the Laws that govern the Rounding of Particles of Sand, 298.
MACKIE, W., The Felspars Present in Sedimentary Rocks as Indicators of the Conditions of Contemporaneous Climate, 443.
MACNAIR, PETER, and JAMES REID, On the Genera Psilophyton, Lycopodites, Zosterophyllum, and Parka decipiens, 368.
Maol nan Damh, Mull, Minerals of, 223.
Melvin, James, Biographical Notice of, 286.
Mentone, Caves at, 26. Metamorphiem in the Harlech Grits,
Incipient, 254* Micropegmatite, Phenocrysts of, 482. Millerj James/ Biographical Note on,
84. Miller, Hugh, Biographical note on, 88.
Biographical notice of, 132. Minerals associated with Gold, Hau-
raki District, New Zealand, 186. , Commerial, of Western Aus
tralia, 6. of Ben More, Mull, 223. of Rudha na h-Airde Glaise,
Skye, 253, 331. of the copper-bearing district
of Namaqualand, 33. of the Hilderston Mines, 201. of the Storr, 328.
Minerals— Agate, 227. Albite, 495. Analcime, 226, 227, 241, 330. Annabergite, 202. Apatite, 292. Apophyllite, 227, 252, 328, 329,
331. Augite, 292. Barytes, 201. Bastite, 295. Celadonite, 225, 226 Chabazite, 226. 329, o30. Dolomite, 201. Enstatite, 291, 392, 396, ^09. Epidote, 173, 224, 226. Erythrite, 202. Faroelite, 227, 328. Galena, 202. Gyrolite, 227, 328, 329, 331. Haematite, 226. Heulandite, 225, 330. Hypersthene, 291. Labradorite, 291. Laumontite, 329. Levyne, 330. Mesolite, 227, 328, 330, 331.
INDEX. 501
Minerals— Murchisonite, 267. Niccolite, 202. Olivine. 388. Onyx, 330. Orthoclase, 483, 494. Pectolite, 227, 331. Plynthite, 330. Prasilite, 225. Prehnite, 226. Quartz, 226, 227, 267. Riebeckite, 265. Saponite, 225, 226, 227, 330. Scolecite, 224, 227. Sphserostilbite, 329. Stilbite, 226, 227, 328, 329. Vivianite, 173. Withamite, 115.
MITCHELL, DAVID, TheGreensand Fossils from Drift-Beds at Moreseat, Cruden, E. Aberdeenshire, 277.
Moffat, Occurrence of Limestone Nodules, in Glacial Deposits, 233.
Moraines Valley, Relation of, to Underlying Strata in Coulin Forest, Ross-shire, 145.
Moreseat, Aberdeenshire, Greensand Fossils of, 277.
Murchison, Sir Roderick I., Biographical Note on, 92.
Murphy, William, Biographical Note on, 93.
Namaqualand, Little, The Copper Mines of, 30.
Neill, Patrick, Biographical Note on, 85.
New Red Sandstone period, Desert Conditions in, 218.
of Arran, 272. New Zealand Volcanic Zone, A visit
to the, 183. Nicol, James, Biographical Note on,
97. Nicol, William, Biographical Note
on, 87. Nossen, Saxony, Phenocrysts of Micro
pegmatite in Quartz-Porphyry of, 487.
Nuneaton, Cambrian Sandstone of, 231.
Obituary Notices— Prof. M. F. Heddle, 317. James Melvin, 286. Hugh Miller, 132. William Pengelly, 74.
Oilfields, Geographical and Geological distribution, 53, 54.
Oilshales, MODES or ORIGIN OF, 121. of Broxburn, Succession of, 18.
VOL. VIT. PART IV.
Old Edinburgh Geologists, Biographical Notes on, 81.
Old Red Sandstone of Arran, 268. Plants of, 368. Relative age of its Sub
divisions, 378.
Page, David, Biographical Note on, 92. Parka decipiens in the Old Red Sand
stone of Scotland, 368, 374, 379. Patterson, Robert, Biographical Note
on, 84. Peach, Charles W . , Biographical Note
on, 95. Pengelly, William, F.R.S., Bio
graphical Notice of, 74. Permian Period, Desert Sandstones
of, 218. Permian Rocks of Arran, 271. Petroleum and Natural Gas, 51. Petroleum, Composition of, 56. — : — Origin of, 58.
Production of, in America, 71. Production of, in Baku, 73.
Phenocrysts of Micropegmatite, 482. Play fair, John, Biographical Note on,
83. Pneumatolytic Action in Mull, 228. Porphyrite of the Cheviots, Analysis
of, 401. Porphyrites of Dumyat, Ochils, 295. Psephicity of Minerals, 302. Psilophyton in the Old Red Sandstone
of Scotland. 368, 369, 378. Psilophyton, Lycopodites, Zosterophyl
lum, and Parka decipiens, Affinities and Distribution, 368.
Quartz-felsite of Cheviots, Analysis of, 410.
Ramsay, Sir Andrew C , Biographical Note on, 97.
REID, JAMES, and PETER MACNAIR, On the Genera Psilophyton, Lycopodites, Zosterophyllum and Parka decipiens, 368.
Rhind, William, Biographical Note on, 88.
RICHARDSON, RALPH, Kent's Cavern and Sir Henry H. Howarth's ** Flood *' Theory, 21.
Obituary Notice of William Pengelly, F.R.S., 74.
Old Edinburgh Geologists, 81. Obituary Notice of James
Melvin, F.S.A., Scot., formerly a Vice-President of the Society, 286.
Richardson, Sir John, Biographical Note on, 85.
Riebeckite, Crystalline Forms of, 265. L
502 INDEX.
Hose, Alexander, Biographical Note on, 92.
Rudha na h-Airde Glaise, Skye, Minerals of, 331.
Sand, Laws that Govern the Rounding of Particles of, 298.
Musical, Localities, 31. figured, 210.
and Sandstones in Eastern Moray, 148.
Schists of Arran, 268. Scotland: Geology, Mineralogy, and
Petrology of— Aberdeenshire (Cruden), 277. Argyllshire (Iona), 115.
(Mull), 223. Ayrshire (Gurdy), 440.
(Ailsa Craig), 265. Buteshire (Arran), 268. Dunifriess-shire (Moffat), 233. Edinburgh, 15,119,139, 244, 259,
312, 361, 483. Fife, 17, 420, 488. Haddington (Dunbar), 361.
(North Berwick), 236. Inverness-shire (Skye), 253, 328,
331, 381. (Inverness), 443. (Strathdearn), 417.
Linlithgow, 173, 201, 477, 481. Moray, 148. Renfrewshire (Boylestone), 241. Ross-shire (Achnashellach), 113.
(Applecross), 35, 38. (Coulin Forest), 145.
Stirlingshire (Dumyat), 290. Sutherland (Canisp), 494.
(Kildonan), 100. "Wigtownshire (Loch Ryan), 111.
Sillimanite Gneisses in Anglesey, 230. Silver Mines of Hilderston, 201. Somerset, Triassic Land-Surface in, 45. SOMERVTLLE, J . E., Letter on the
Caves at Mentone (quoted), 26. Somerville, Mary, Biographical Note
on, 94. Spherulitic Basalt from Skye, 381.
Spherulitic Structure, British Localities of Rocks exhibiting, 382.
Storr, Minerals of the, 328. Strathdearn and the Aviemore Rail
way, Geological Notes on, 416. Sutherland Goldfield, 100.
Tertiary Rocks of Ben More, Mull, 223.
Torosay, Mull, Minerals of, 227. Torridonian Period- in • Britain, Sug
gested Desert conditions, 220. — Suggested
Glacial conditions, 461. Tourmaline in Cheviot Granite, 408,
393. In Cheviot Granophyre, 404.
Townson, Robert, Biographical Note on, 84.
Triassic Land-Surface, 45. Period, Desert Sandstones of,
218.
Vivianite in an Old Lake Bed at Cauldhame, near Linlithgow, 173.
Volcanic Neck at Philpstoun, 477, 481.
Necks at Applecross, 35.
Walker, John, Biographical Note on, 84.
Western Australia and its Goldfield s, 1. Williams, John, Biographical Note
on, 84. WALLACE, THOMAS D., Geological
Notes on Strathdearn and the Aviemore Railway. Part I., 416.
Wernerian Natural History Society, 85.
YOUNG, D R JOHN, PROP. T. RUPERT JONES, and JAMES W. EJREBY, On Carbonia: its HorizonB and Conditions of Occurrence in Scotland, especially in Fife, 420.
Zosterophyllum in the Old Red Sandstone of Scotland, 379, 372, 368.