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III. The County Geognosy and Mineralogy of Scotland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Heddle
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The chapters of this work purport to be chronicles of the present state of our knowledge of the mineralogy of the northern portion of the kingdom. The geognosy and lithology are treated of to such an extent only as, in the first place, to explain the position of the minerals ; and, in the second, to aid future investigators in their explorations.

In these chapters, in order to do full justice to the work of others, the authority for, and the original discoverer of every locality mentioned, will be quoted, wherever known.

The author, having attempted to visit every known mineral locality to the north of the Forth and Clyde, and having succeeded in this attempt with less than half-a-dozen exceptions, is able in most cases to authenticate, or the opposite, as the case may be, the statements of previous observers.

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Research Article
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Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 2 , Issue 8 , March 1878 , pp. 9 - 35
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1878

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References

page 10 note * To this map the reader is referred for full information as to the signs adopted.

page 26 note * My assistant, Mr. John Dalziel, tells me that two specimens of chromite which he analysed contained about 20 per cent. of silica.

page 28 note * Circumstances prevented me from getting a sufficiency of this for analysis. I recommend it as worthy thereof to those who may have the opportunity of so doing.