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SKETCH-BOOK OF POPULAR GEOLOGY. SKETCH-BOOK OF POPULAR GEOLOGY; BEING A SERIES OF LECTURES DELIVERED BEFORE THE PHILOSOPHICAL INSTITUTION OF EDINBURGH. BY HUGH MJLLER. ' WITH AN INTRODUCTORY PREFACE, GIVING A RESUME OF THE PROGRESS OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCE WITHIN THE LAST TWO YEARS. BY MRS MILLEB. EDINBURGH: THOMAS CONSTABLE AND CO. HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO., LONDON. MDCCCLIX. TO THE EEV. W. S. SYMONDS, RECTOR OF PESDOCK, HEREFORDSHIRE. Dear Sir, I may possibly be taking too great a liberty with you, and likewise with tbe production of another, however near and dear to me, when I ask you to accept the dedication of this volume. And yet in the circumstances I think I may be pardoned, as I am quite sure he would pardon me whose work it iB, and whose memory you so much revere. "Without your co-operation, I believe that neither the " Cruise of the Betsey" nor these pages could by this time have seen the light.
"When my own over-laden brain refused to do its duty, you gave me to hope, by offers of well-timed assistance, that the task before me might still be accomplished. Your friendly voice, often heard in tones of sympathizing inquiry when I was unable to endure your own or any other human presence,— not even that of my dear child, — was for a time the only sound that brought to my heart any promise or cheer for the future. It was then, while myself unable to read the very characters in which they were written, that I put into your hands tbe papers containing " The Cruise*' and " Ten Thousand Milesover the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland." You undertook the editorial duties VI DEDICATION. connected with them con amore, and performed your task in a manner that left nothing to be desired. In preparing the present volume for the press, you have given me all the advantage of your ready stores of information, both in carefully scrutiniz ing the text to see where any addition was required in the form of notes, and in referring me to the best authorities on every point regarding which I consulted you.
And while so doing, you have confirmed my own judg ment, — not beyond the risk of being swayed by partiality, — by giving it as your opiuion that this work is calculated to advance the reputation of its author. Long may you be spared to be, as now, the life and soul of those scien ti6c pursuits so successfully carried on in your native district ! Many a happy field-day may you enjoy in connection with that Society of which you are the honoured president. "Would that all associations throughout our country were as harmless in their methods of finding recreation, as in vigorating for the body and the mind, and as beneficial in their results fur the cause of science ! In exploring the beautiful fields, and woods, and sunny slopes of "Worcester, and Herefordshire, in earnest and healthful commun ings with nature, and, I trust, with nature's God, — the perennial springs of whose bounty are seldom quaffed in this manner as they ought to be, — I trust that much, much happiness is in store for you and for the other gen tlemen of the Malvem Club,* to whom, as well as to yourself, I owe a debt of grateful remembrance. * The Malvern Club devotes stated periods, — monthly, I think, — to rambles over twenty or thirty miles of country, when the naturalists of whom it is composed, — botanists, geologists, &c.,— carry on the researches of their various departments separately, or in little groupes of two or three, as they may desire.
Appendix
. Page ACCUMULATIONS OF SHELLS, PHENOMENA EXPLANATORY OP - 280 AMMONITES OF THE NORTHERN HAS - - 288 ASTRBA OF THE OOLITE, SUTHERLAND - 250 BELEMNITES OF THE NORTHERN LIAS - - - 288 BONE-BED, RECENT, IN THE FORMING - - - 244 BRAAMBURY, QUARRY OF, UPPER OOLITE, SUTHERLAND 258 BREWSTER, SIR DAVID, ON THE CUTTLE-FISH AND BELEMNITE - 310 BRORA COAL FIELD OTHER THAN THE TRUE COAL-MEASURES - 253 BROEA PEAT-MOSSES OF THE OOLITE - - 256 CAUTION TO GEOLOGISTS ON THE FINDING OF REMAINS 282 CLAY-BED OF THE NORTHERN SUTOR, LESSON TO YOUNG GEOLO- GISTS ........ 276 CONGENERS OF THE CUTTLE-FISH, BELEMNITE, &C. - 296 OOPROLITES OF THE LIAS - - - - - 304 CROMARTY -------- 269 CROMARTY, CAVES OF, OR THE ART OF SEEING OVER THE ART OF THEORIZING ------ 270 CROMARTY SUTOR, LINE OF ... - 275 CUTTLE FISH ------- 289 DIPTERUS MACROLEPIDOTUS, ABUNDANT IN THE BANNISKIRK OLD RED OF CAITHNESS ------ 246 EATHIE, INTRUSIVE DIKES OF - - - - 305 ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, LONDON MUSEUM OF - - CONTENTS TO
APPENDIX.
. Page FOSSIL-WOOD OF TRE OOLITE AT HELMSDALE, SUTHERLAND - 247 GANOID SCALES AND RAYS - 243 GLACIAL APPEARANCES AT NIGG AND LOGIE - 278 GLACIERS AND MORAINES OF SUTHERLAND - - - 261 GRANITIC GNEISS AND SANDSTONE, WITH THE CONDITIONS OF THEIR UPHEAVAL ------- 285 LEVEL STEPPES OF RUSSIA, AND THEORY OF MORAINES 265 SEPTARIA, OR CEMENT-STONES, OF THE LIAS - - 287 TEREBRATULA, CONTEMPORARY AND EXTINCT TYPES OF THE LIFE OF 308 TRAVELLED BOULDERS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH CLAY - - 284 TYPES, RECENT, OF FOSSILS - - - 251 UNDERLYING CLAY ON LEVEL MOORS, REMARKS ON - 283 THEORY OF THE OCEAN'S LEVEL - - - - 313 CHAIN OF CAUSES - - - - - . 321 RECENT GEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES - 345 SIR RODERICK MURCHISON ON THE RECENT GEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES IN MORAYSBIRE - - ' - - - -
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